Understanding bitcoin cryptography, engineering and economics
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex, [England] :
John Wiley & Sons
2015.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Wiley finance series.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629209006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
