TY  - BOOK
AU  - Narayanan,Arvind
AU  - Bonneau,Joseph
AU  - Felten,Edward
AU  - Miller,Andrew
AU  - Goldfeder,Steven
TI  - Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies: a comprehensive introduction 
SN  - 9780691171692
U1  - 332.40285 BON 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Bitcoin
KW  - Money
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Cryptography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -