Cardano for the M₳sses

The 4rd edition¹, was published Jan 2025 under an open-source licence.

Guidelines for contributors

'I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead'

• Keep it short as possible, without leaving important stuff out.
• Everything is done in 'markdown' files, see here² for a cheatsheet
• 'Measure twice cut once'. Target of 11 chapters of roughly equal length 15-25 google doc pages.
• Intended audience, ie. Someone who just heard of Cardano. This book should be the less technical 'story of Cardano' that preps readers for more technical 'Mastering Cardano' book coming soon.

To do

• Add style guide
• improve/replace graphics
• Guidelines for KDP, Kindle Direct Publishing³ are useful rules for all publishing platforms.

Translations of earlier editions

There has already been progress made on a Spanish translation by Humberto Rojas Serrano and Joe San.

A Japanese translation⁴, funded by Catalyst, is already complete and available.⁵

A Vietnamese translation is now complete. Led by Hoang Phuong Linh, with team from - http://Cardano.Vn, the project received Catalyst funding in Fund11⁶. You can download PDF of the translation⁷, listen to the audiobook online.⁸

A Finnish translation, by Kai Ahokangas, is in progress.

If you are interested in translating this book, please get in touch: [email protected]. The plan is to keep it simple and manage translations in subfolders here. Translators can follow whatever format they wish, however, I recommened following same 'markdown' format as this main repo.

Licensing

Cardano for the Masses - Chang Edition by John Greene is licensed under a _Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.⁹ The terms of that license apply.

Footnotes

1. Cardano for the Masses - Chang edition, amazon.com/dp/B0B912X5G6 ↩

2. Markdown cheatsheet, github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet ↩

3. KDP Guidelines kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GU72M65VRFPH43L6 ↩

4. Cardano For the M₳sses - Japanese Book, lidonation.com/ja/proposals/cardano-for-the-marasses-japanese-book-f10 ↩

5. Cardano For the M₳sses - Japanese Edition, amazon.com/dp/B0D44MG8RJ ↩

6. Cardano For the M₳sses: - Vietnames translation, www.lidonation.com/en/proposals/cardano-for-the-marasses-age-of-voltaire-edition-f11 ↩

7. Cardano For the M₳sses: - Vietnames translation PDFs, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19c5d6cgbg3xp6yfx3vBkjC46PT1AJMuh ↩

8. Vietnamese audiobook - https://t.co/vGTJ8OBkKI ↩

9. Creative Commons License, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ ↩