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Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies : a comprehensive introduction / Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, and Steven Goldfeder

By: Narayanan, ArvindContributor(s): Bonneau, Joseph | Felten, Edward | Miller, Andrew | Goldfeder, StevenLanguage: English Publication details: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2016 Description: xxvii, 304 pages : illustrations; 26 cmISBN: 9780691171692Subject(s): Bitcoin | Money -- Technological innovations | CryptographyDDC classification: 332.40285 BON Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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