Description: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction NewCover Show Shelf Wear About this productProduct InformationBitcoin 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 currency* Covers the history and mechanics of Bitcoin and the block chain, security, decentralization, anonymity, politics and regulation, altcoins, and much more* Features an accompanying website that includes instructional videos for each chapter, homework problems, programming assignments, and lecture slides* Also suitable for use with the authors' Coursera online course* Electronic solutions manual (available only to professors)
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Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduc
Publication Name: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies : a Comprehensive Introdu
Item Height: 1in.
Author: Edward Felten, Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Steven Goldfeder, Andrew Miller
Item Length: 10in.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Width: 7.3in.
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
