Understanding bitcoin : cryptography, engineering and economics. / Pedro Franco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franco, Pedro, author.

Series:

Wiley finance series.

The Wiley Finance Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer networks--Security measures.

Computer networks.

Computer security.

Data encryption (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (631 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Cryptography, engineering and economics

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, [England] : John Wiley & Sons, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Discover Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has the finance world buzzing Bitcoin is arguably one of the biggest developments in finance since the advent of fiat currency. With Understanding Bitcoin, expert author Pedro Franco provides finance professionals with a complete technical guide and resource to the cryptography, engineering and economic development of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This comprehensive, yet accessible work fully explores the supporting economic realities and technological advances of Bitcoin, and presents positive and negative arguments from various economic schools

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Prologue; Preface; Part One: Introduction and Economics; Chapter 1: Foundations; 1.1 Decentralized; 1.2 Open Source; 1.3 Public Asset Ledger; 1.4 It's not Only the Currency, It's the Technology; Chapter 2: Technology (Introduction); 2.1 Centralized Database; 2.2 Addresses, Transactions; 2.3 Distributed Database, the Blockchain; 2.4 Wallets; 2.5 The Different Meanings of Bitcoin; Chapter 3: Economics; 3.1 Medium of Exchange; 3.2 Store of Value; 3.3 Unit of Account; 3.4 Deflation; 3.5 Volatility

3.6 Effect on the Financial Industry and Monetary Policy3.7 Regulation; Chapter 4: Business Applications; 4.1 Money Transfer; 4.2 Exchanges; 4.3 Payment Processors; 4.4 Web Wallets; 4.5 Multisignature Escrow Services; 4.6 Mining; 4.7 ATMS; Part Two: Bitcoin Technology; Chapter 5: Public Key Cryptography; 5.1 Public Key Encryption; 5.2 Digital Signatures; 5.3 RSA; 5.4 Elliptic Curve Cryptography; 5.5 Other Cryptographic Primitives; 5.6 Bitcoin Addresses; Chapter 6: Transactions; 6.1 Transaction Scripts; 6.2 Pay-to-Address and Pay-to-Public-Key Transactions

6.3 Multisignature (m-of-n) transactions6.4 Other Transaction Types; 6.5 Transaction Signature; 6.6 Pay-to-Script-Hash (P2SH); 6.7 Standard Transactions; Chapter 7: The Blockchain; 7.1 Hash Functions; 7.2 Time-Stamp; 7.3 Proof-of-Work; 7.4 The Blockchain; 7.5 Double-Spend and Other Attacks; 7.6 Merkle Trees; 7.7 Scalability; Chapter 8: Wallets; 8.1 Symmetric-Key Cryptography; 8.2 Offline Wallets; 8.3 Web Wallets; 8.4 Brain Wallets; 8.6 Multisignature Wallets; 8.7 Vanity Addresses; 8.8 Simplified Payment Verification (SPV); 8.9 The "Payment Protocol" (BIP 70); Chapter 9: Mining

9.1 Mining Technology9.2 Pooled Mining; 9.3 Transaction Fees; 9.4 Selfish Mining; Part Three: The Cryptocurrencies Landscape; Chapter 10: The Origins Of Bitcoin; 10.1 David Chaum's Ecash; 10.2 Adam Back's Hashcash; 10.3 Nick Szabo's Bit Gold and Wei Dai's B-Money; 10.4 Sander and Ta-Shma's Auditable, Anonymous Electronic Cash; 10.5 Hal Finney's RPOW; 10.6 Satoshi Nakamoto; Chapter 11: Alt(ernative) Coins; 11.1 Litecoin; 11.2 Peercoin; 11.3 Namecoin; 11.4 Auroracoin; 11.5 Primecoin; 11.6 Dogecoin; 11.7 Freicoin; 11.8 Other Alt-Coins; 11.9 The Case For/Against Alt-Coins

Chapter 12: Contracts (the Internet of Money or Cryptocurrencies 2.0)12.1 Digital Assets; 12.2 Smart Property; 12.3 Micropayments; 12.4 Autonomous Agents; 12.5 Other Applications; 12.6 Inserting Data into the Blockchain; 12.7 Meta-Coins; Chapter 13: The Privacy Battle; 13.1 Network Analysis; 13.2 Laundry Services; 13.3 Greenlisting; 13.4 Privacy-Enhancing Technologies; 13.5 Fully Anonymous Decentralized Currencies; Chapter 14: Odds and Ends; 14.1 Other Transaction Protocols; 14.2 Alternatives to Proof-of-Work; 14.3 Merged Mining; 14.4 Side-Chains; 14.5 Open Transactions

14.6 Quantum Computing

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 28, 2014).

ISBN:

9781119019138

1119019133

9781119019145

1119019141

9781119019152

111901915X

OCLC:

894170560