Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies (eBook)

A Comprehensive Introduction

Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Steven Goldfeder, Andrew Miller, Arvind Narayanan (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8415-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An authoritative introduction to the exciting new technologies of digital moneyBitcoin 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)

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 11 halftones. 86 line illus. 7 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Schlagworte: Addition • algorithm • Alice and Bob • analysis of algorithms • anonymity • Application-specific integrated circuit • Arvind Narayanan • Bank • Bank regulation • Banksy • Bitcoin • Bitcoin Core • Bitcoin Foundation • Bitcoin network • Bitfinex • Blockchain • Blockchain.info • block cipher • Block (data storage) • Business Model • Byte • Bytecode • Calculation • Capital control • Central Bank • Cloud Computing • coinbase • CoinJoin • Commercial Bank • Commodity • Computation • Computational problem • Computational resource • Computer • Computer Security • computing • credit card • Credit (finance) • Cryptocurrency • Cryptocurrency tumbler • cryptographic hash function • Cryptographic primitive • cryptographic protocol • cryptography • Cryptography Research • Cryptolocker • CryptoNote • cryptosystem • Currency • Customer • cypherpunk • Cypherpunks (book) • Dan Kaminsky • Dash (cryptocurrency) • Data Security • data structure • Debit Card • decentralization • Demand deposit • denial-of-service attack • digital currency • Digital privacy • digital signature • Doctor of Philosophy • Double-Spending • Drawback • ebay • eCash • Economics • economist • Electronic Frontier Foundation • Electronic Media • Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm • Email • Encryption • Encryption software • Escrow • Ethereum • Exchange Rate • Export of cryptography • fellow • financial centre • financial cryptography • Financial institution • Financial Instrument • Fixed exchange-rate system • Flooding algorithm • Foreign Exchange Market • Gigabyte • Graphics Processing Unit • Gratuity • hash function • hash table • Header (computing) • HTTPS • Identity document • Information Theory • Instance (computer science) • Instruction set • Intellectual Property • International Cryptology Conference • Internet Access • Investment • ip address • Keychain • Key control • Key (cryptography) • Key exchange • Key-value database • Law enforcement • Litecoin • Malware • Merkle Tree • micropayment • Mining • mining pool • Money laundering • Money Supply • Multisignature • Namecoin • Ownership • Parameter (computer programming) • Password • password cracking • Payment • Payment processor • PayPal • Ponzi scheme • Postdoctoral researcher • Prediction Market • Product (business) • Proof-of-Stake • Proof-of-work system • pseudorandom generator • Public-Key Cryptography • random number generation • Requirement • result • Router (computing) • RSA (cryptosystem) • Satoshi Nakamoto • Scrypt • Secure Hash Algorithm • security deposit • Security Engineering • Server (computing) • SHA-2 • Share (finance) • Smart Contract • Software • source code • Spamming • Stock exchange • Strong cryptography • Swap (finance) • Symmetric-key algorithm • Tax evasion • Technology • Theft • Timestamp • Trade-off • transaction data • Transaction processing • United States Dollar • Use Case • USENIX • User (computing) • Venture Capital • virtual currency • Virtual machine • Virtual Reality • Vulnerability (computing) • Website • Your Computer (British magazine) • Your Money • Zerocoin • zero-knowledge proof
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8415-2 / 1400884152
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8415-5 / 9781400884155