Rob Hoffman – Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

Rob Hoffman – Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

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.
To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, we need to understand how it works at a technical level. We’ll address the important questions about Bitcoin.

How do Bitcoin and its block chain actually work? How secure are your bitcoins? 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.You’ll know everything you need to be able to separate fact from fiction when reading claims about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. You’ll have the conceptual foundations you need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network.

And you’ll be able to integrate ideas from Bitcoin in your own projects.

• 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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