Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides a comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary yet often misunderstood new technologies of digital currency. Whether you are a student, software developer, tech entrepreneur, or researcher in computer science, this authoritative and self-contained book tells you everything you need to know about the new global money for the Internet age.
How do Bitcoin and its block chain actually work? How secure are your bitcoins? How anonymous are their users? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? These are some of the many questions this book answers. It begins by tracing the history and development of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, and then gives the conceptual and practical foundations you need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network as well as to integrate ideas from Bitcoin into your own projects. Topics include decentralization, mining, the politics of Bitcoin, altcoins and the cryptocurrency ecosystem, the future of Bitcoin, and more.
An essential introduction to the new technologies of digital currencyCovers the history and mechanics of Bitcoin and the block chain, security, decentralization, anonymity, politics and regulation, altcoins, and much moreFeatures an accompanying website that includes instructional videos for each chapter, homework problems, programming assignments, and lecture slidesAlso suitable for use with the authors' Coursera online courseElectronic solutions manual (available only to professors)
Author(s): Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, Steven Goldfeder
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
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Pages: 336
City: New Jersey
Tags: Foreign Exchange; International; Business & Money; Computer Science; AI & Machine Learning; Bioinformatics; Computer Simulation; Cybernetics; Human-Computer Interaction; Information Theory; Robotics; Systems Analysis & Design; Computers & Technology; Digital Currencies; History & Culture; Computers & Technology; Computer Science; Algorithms; Artificial Intelligence; Database Storage & Design; Graphics & Visualization; Networking; Object-Oriented Software Design; Operating Systems; Programming L
PREFACE
FOREWORD. The Long Road to Bitcoin
CHAPTER 1. Introduction to Cryptography and Cryptocurrencies
CHAPTER 2. How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization
CHAPTER 3. Mechanics of Bitcoin
CHAPTER 4. How to Store and Use Bitcoins
CHAPTER 5. Bitcoin Mining
CHAPTER 6. Bitcoin and Anonymity
CHAPTER 7. Community, Politics, and Regulation
CHAPTER 8. Alternative Mining Puzzles
CHAPTER 9. Bitcoin as a Platform
CHAPTER 10. Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
CHAPTER 11. Decentralized Institutions: The Future of Bitcoin?
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INDEX
