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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
A Comprehensive Introduction
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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 t
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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 blockchain 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 decentralisation, mining, the politics of Bitcoin, altcoins, and the cryptocurrency ecosystem, the future of Bitcoin, and more.
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies is an essential introduction to the new technologies of digital currency. It covers the history and mechanics of Bitcoin and the blockchain, security, decentralisation, anonymity, politics and regulation, altcoins, and much more.
The book features an accompanying website that includes instructional videos for each chapter, homework problems, programming assignments, and lecture slides. It is also suitable for use with the authors' Coursera online course. An electronic solutions manual is available only to professors.
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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies has received recognition such as an Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences by the Association of American Publishers. It's praised by reviewers like Choice for being an excellent resource for those keen on understanding the inner workings of Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies.
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ISBN: 9780691171692
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 19 July 2016
Country: United States
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Illustration: 11 halftones. 86 line illus. 7 tables.
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 178.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 907g
Pages: 336
About the Author
Arvind Narayanan is assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University. Joseph Bonneau is a postdoctoral researcher at the Applied Cryptography Group at Stanford University. Edward Felten is director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy. Andrew Miller is a PhD student in computer science at the University of Maryland. Steven Goldfeder is a PhD student in computer science at Princeton.
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