Cryptocurrency All-in-One For Dummies
Cryptocurrency All–in–One For Dummies
Learn the skills to get in on the crypto craze The world of cryptocurrency includes some of the coolest technologies and most lucrative investments available today. And you can jump right into the middle of the action with Cryptocurrency All-in-One For Dummies, a collection of simple and straightfor...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2022]
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| Colección: | --For dummies
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645683106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go From Here
- Book 1 Cryptocurrency Basics
- Chapter 1 What Is a Cryptocurrency?
- Beginning with the Basics of Cryptocurrencies
- The definition of money
- Some cryptocurrency history
- Key crypto benefits
- Common crypto and blockchain myths
- Risks
- Gearing Up to Make Transactions
- Wallets
- Exchanges
- Communities
- Making a Plan Before You Jump In
- Chapter 2 How Cryptocurrencies Work
- Explaining Basic Terms in the Cryptocurrency Process
- Cryptography
- Nodes
- Mining
- Proof of work
- Proof of stake
- Proof of importance
- Transactions: Putting it all together
- Cruising through Other Important Crypto Concepts
- Adaptive scaling
- Decentralization
- Harvesting
- Open source
- Public ledger
- Smart contracts
- Stick a Fork in It: Digging into Cryptocurrency Forks
- What is a fork, and why do forks happen?
- Hard forks and soft forks
- Free money on forks
- Chapter 3 Introducing Cryptocurrency Wallets
- Defining Cryptocurrency Wallets
- A few important terms
- How a wallet works
- Looking at Different Types of Wallets
- Online wallet
- Mobile wallet
- Desktop wallet
- Hardware wallet
- Paper wallet
- Choosing a Crypto Wallet
- Based on security
- Based on your crypto ownership
- Based on transaction fees
- Based on anonymity
- Keeping Your Wallet Secure
- Back up your wallet
- Have multiple wallets
- Add more security levels
- Update your software
- Remember where you hide it!
- Chapter 4 Different Types of Cryptocurrencies
- Celebrating Celebrity Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap
- Bitcoin
- A bit of Bitcoin background
- Bitcoin characteristics
- Ethereum
- Brief Ethereum background.
- Ethereum versus Bitcoin
- Ethereum characteristics
- Ripple
- Some Ripple background
- Ripple versus Bitcoin
- Ripple characteristics
- Cardano
- A little Cardano background
- Cardano versus Bitcoin
- Cardano characteristics
- Other top ten major cryptos
- Top 100 major cryptos
- Cryptocurrencies by Category
- Payment cryptos
- Privacy cryptos
- Platform cryptos
- Exchange-specific cryptos
- Finance/fintech cryptos
- Legal and property cryptos
- Book 2 Blockchain Basics
- Chapter 1 Introducing Blockchain
- Beginning at the Beginning: What Blockchains Are
- What blockchains do
- Why blockchains matter
- The Structure of Blockchains
- Blockchain Applications
- The Blockchain Life Cycle
- Consensus: The Driving Force of Blockchains
- Blockchains in Use
- Current blockchain uses
- Future blockchain applications
- Chapter 2 Picking a Blockchain
- Where Blockchains Add Substance
- Determining your needs
- Defining your goal
- Choosing a Solution
- Drawing a blockchain decision tree
- Making a plan
- Chapter 3 Getting Your Hands on Blockchain
- Diving into Blockchain Technology
- Creating a secure environment
- Downloading and installing the Brave browser
- Downloading and installing ProtonVPN
- Downloading, installing, and securing MetaMask
- Buying your first Bitcoin
- Building a Private Blockchain with Docker and Ethereum
- Preparing your computer
- Building your blockchain
- Chapter 4 Beholding the Bitcoin Blockchain
- Getting a Brief History of the Bitcoin Blockchain
- The New Bitcoin: Bitcoin Cash
- Debunking Some Common Bitcoin Misconceptions
- Bitcoin: The New Wild West
- Fake sites
- No, you first!
- Get-rich-quick schemes
- Mining for Bitcoins
- Making Your First Paper Wallet
- Chapter 5 Encountering the Ethereum Blockchain
- Exploring the Brief History of Ethereum.
- Ethereum: The Open-Source World Wide Computer
- Decentralized applications: Welcome to the future
- The power of decentralized autonomous organizations
- Hacking a Blockchain
- Understanding smart contracts
- Discovering the cryptocurrency Ether
- Getting Up and Running on Ethereum
- Mining for Ether
- Building your first decentralized autonomous organization
- Uncovering the Future of DAOs
- Putting money in a DAO
- Building smarter smart contracts
- Finding bugs in the system
- Creating Your Own ERC-20 Token
- Chapter 6 Getting Your Hands on Hyperledger
- Getting to Know Hyperledger
- Identifying Key Hyperledger Projects
- Focusing on Fabric
- Investigating the Iroha project
- Diving into Sawtooth
- Building Your System in Fabric
- Building Asset Tracking with Hyperledger Composer
- Working with Smart Contracts on Hyperledger
- Chapter 7 Financial Technology
- Hauling Out Your Crystal Ball: Future Banking Trends
- Moving money faster: Across borders and more
- Creating permanent history
- Going International: Global Financial Products
- Border-free payroll
- Faster and better trade
- Guaranteed payments
- Micropayments: The new nature of transactions
- Squeezing Out Fraud
- Book 3 Bitcoin
- Chapter 1 Bitcoin Tech Explained
- Understanding That There Is No Bitcoin!
- Discovering the Bitcoin Ledger
- So where is this "Bitcoin ledger"?
- Bitcoin uses a blockchain ledger
- Looking at the Bitcoin Distributed, Peer-to-Peer Network
- Using the Bitcoin Blockchain's Blocks of Business
- Hashing the blocks
- The Bitcoin blockchain is "immutable"
- Finding Out How the Ledger Functions
- Your address: where your money is stored in the ledger
- What's the crypto in cryptocurrency?
- Public key encryption magic
- Messages to the blockchain
- Signing messages with the private key.
- Sending a transaction message to the Bitcoin ledger
- Unraveling the message
- But you'll need a wallet
- Chapter 2 Buying, Using, and Selling Bitcoin
- Finding the Price of Bitcoin
- Your Options for Acquiring Bitcoin
- Bitcoin ATMs
- Retail Bitcoin
- Person-to-person trading
- Bitcoin exchanges
- "Bitcoin Back" on Credit and Debit Cards
- Earning Your Bitcoin
- Mining Bitcoin
- Finding Bitcoin Everywhere
- Selling Your Bitcoin
- Chapter 3 Taking Control of Your Wallet (and Hodling Your Bitcoin)
- What Is a Wallet?
- Wallets store private keys
- Wallets create and store keys and addresses
- Wallets communicate with the Bitcoin network
- Wallets can be hot or cold
- Exploring Wallet Hardware
- Brain wallets
- Paper wallets
- Metal wallets
- Hardware wallets
- Web wallets
- Dedicated full nodes
- Dedicated hardware full nodes
- Full-node software
- Software wallets
- Finding a Wallet
- Setting Up a Bitcoin Wallet
- Creating and securing your first wallet
- Creating a 24-word seed
- Increasing security with a fake account
- Receiving Bitcoin
- Getting those notifications
- Checking your addresses
- Sending Bitcoin
- Following the money
- Backing up your wallet
- Importing (or recovering) a wallet
- Creating a watch-only wallet
- Exploring multiple-signature wallets
- Using the Lightning Network
- Chapter 4 Keeping Your Bitcoin Safe
- Understanding How You Can Lose Control of Your Bitcoin
- Grasping the Goal: Private Key and Seed Protection
- Making a Choice: Custodial or Private Wallet?
- Devising Your Cryptocurrency Safety Plan
- Producing powerful passwords
- Protecting passwords with password programs
- Protecting your computer
- Watching out for sophisticated phishing
- Employing two-factor authentication
- Exploring More Ways to Protect Your Bitcoin (and Everything Else).
- Knowing What Happens When You Kick the Bucket
- Choosing the multi-sig solution
- Scheduling future transactions
- Using a digital inheritance feature
- Book 4 Ethereum
- Chapter 1 Getting to Know Ethereum
- Exploring Ethereum's Consensus, Mining, and Smart Contracts
- Buying, Spending, and Trading Ether
- Getting Started with DAO and ICO
- Delving into Development Tools
- Chapter 2 Exploring Use Cases for Ethereum
- Diving into Ethereum Applications
- Exploring Financial Services
- Banking
- Creating Ethereum escrow applications
- Examining ICOs
- Establishing Digital Identity Management
- Managing individual and device identities
- Reducing fraud and identity theft
- Examining the ERC-725 standard and beyond
- Examining Industry Applications
- Healthcare
- Energy
- Supply chain
- Enabling Effective Governance
- Tax payment
- Government spending
- Voting
- Policy development
- Notary
- Chapter 3 Examining the Ethereum Ecosystem and Development Life cycle
- Exploring the Ethereum Blockchain Block Structure
- Describing Smart Contracts
- Introducing Solidity, the Language of Smart Contracts
- Working with the Ethereum Virtual Machine
- Fueling Your Code with Gas
- Surveying Tools for Developing, Testing, and Deploying Ethereum Apps
- Ethereum blockchain client
- Development and testing blockchain
- Compiler and testing framework
- Source code editor/IDE
- Describing the Ethereum Development Life cycle
- Introducing Smart Contract Development Tools
- Chapter 4 Getting and Configuring Ethereum Development Tools
- Examining Why Multiple Ethereum Development Tools Are Available
- Downloading, Installing, and Configuring All the Pieces
- Installing the blockchain client
- Installing the test blockchain
- Installing the testing environment
- Getting ready to install Truffle.
- Downloading and installing Truffle.
