Sale!

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction

Amazon.com Price:  $38.75 (as of 12/05/2019 16:40 PST- Details)

Description

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides a comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary yet continuously misunderstood new technologies of digital currency. Whether you’re a student, software developer, tech entrepreneur, or researcher in computer science, this authoritative and self-contained book tells you everything you want to know about the new global money for the Internet age.

How do Bitcoin and its block chain in truth work? How safe are your bitcoins? How anonymous are their users? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? These are one of the vital 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 want to engineer safe software that interacts with the Bitcoin network in addition to to integrate ideas from Bitcoin into your own projects. Topics include decentralization, mining, the politics of Bitcoin, altcoins and the cryptocurrency ecosystem, the way forward for Bitcoin, and more.

  • 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 to be used with the authors’ Coursera online course
  • Electronic solutions manual (to be had only to professors)
Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Computers and Technology » History and Culture » Digital Currencies » Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction

Recent Products