“…Hands-on guidance for professionals investigating crimes that include cryptocurrency In There's No Such Thing as Crypto Crime: An Investigators Guide, accomplished cybersecurity and forensics consultant Nick Furneaux delivers an expert discussion of the key methods used by cryptocurrency investigators, including investigations on Bitcoin and Ethereum type blockchains. The book explores the criminal opportunities available to malicious actors in the crypto universe, as well as the investigative principles common to this realm. …”

“…While the world is transfixed by bitcoin mania, your competitors are tuning out the noise and making strategic bets on blockchain. …”

“…This updated third edition includes brand-new chapters on: risk management; identifying winning stocks; testing your trading strategy; Bitcoin and alternative investments; ways to read the market quickly and accurately; technical and fundamental analysis; and short-term trading and long-term investing. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 15 Assessment Framework -- Chapter 16 Value Investment in Cryptoassets -- Chapter 17 Concluding Remarks -- Part VII Appendices -- Appendix A: Precursors of Cryptoassets -- Appendix B: Bitcoin's Replacement Cost Valuation -- Appendix C: Financial Products Applied to Crypto -- Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Appendix E: References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating the parseDeviceInfo() function -- Forming the prepUSBLookup() function -- Constructing the getDeviceNames() function -- Enhancing the printOutput() function -- Running the script -- Additional challenges -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Working with Serialized Data Structures -- Serialized data structures -- A simple Bitcoin Web API -- Our first iteration - bitcoin_address_lookup.v1.py -- Exploring the main() function -- Understanding the getAddress() function -- Working with the printTransactions() function -- The printHeader() helper function -- The getInputs() helper function -- Running the script -- Our second iteration - bitcoin_address_lookup.v2.py -- Modifying the main() function -- Improving the getAddress() function -- Elaborating on the printTransactions() function -- Running the script -- Mastering our final iteration - bitcoin_address_lookup.py -- Enhancing the parseTransactions() function -- Developing the csvWriter() function -- Running the script -- Additional challenges -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Databases in Python -- An overview of databases -- Using SQLite3 -- Using the Structured Query Language -- Designing our script -- Manually manipulating databases with Python - file_lister.py -- Building the main() function -- Initializing the database with the initDB() function -- Checking for custodians with the getOrAddCustodian() function -- Retrieving custodians with the getCustodian() function -- Understanding the ingestDirectory() function -- Exploring the os.stat() method -- Developing the formatTimestamp() helper function -- Configuring the writeOutput() function -- Designing the writeCSV() function -- Composing the writeHTML() function -- Running the script -- Further automating databases - file_lister_peewee.py -- Peewee setup -- Jinja2 setup -- Updating the main() function -- Adjusting the initDB() function…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…COMPLIANCE TRAININGCHAPTER 8 - CURRENCY AND CAMPAIGNS; ONLINE BANKING; E-PAYMENTS CONVERT TO M-PAYMENTS; VIRTUAL CURRENCY; DIGITAL CURRENCY; BITCOIN; BEYOND BITCOINS; CROWDFUNDING; ONLINE MICROFINANCING; ONLINE CHARITABLE DONATIONS AND FUNDRAISING; FUTURE OF MONEY; DIGITAL POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS; DIGITAL ADVOCACY; DIGITAL LOBBYING; RISK AND SECURITY OF ONLINE POLITICS; CHAPTER 9 - DIGITAL SUCCESSION; SUCCESSION PLANNING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECURITY SHORTAGE; THE NEXT GENERATION OF INFOSEC PRO; WOMEN IN INFOSEC; CYBERSECURITY SIMULATIONS; DIGITAL LEGACY; DIGITAL ASSETS; DIGITAL AFTERLIFE…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; The Key Lessons; Participant Profiles; Chapter 6:Is Bitcoin the End of Cash?; Bitcoin Is "Real"-Deal with It; The Death of Cash by "A Thousand Cuts"; The Digital Money Everyone's Talking About; The Case for a Legitimate Digital Currency-Canada's Mint Chip; Will Digital Cash Kill the Dollar?…”

“…The crypto shift of blockchains, ICOs, and tokens is much more than just buying bitcoins, creating tokens, or raising millions in a minute in an ICO. …”

“…Blockchain is not only about Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies, but also about different technologies such as peer-to-peer networks, consensus mechanisms, and cryptography. …”

“…The Great Fragmentation shows how technological changes such as Big Data, gamification, crowdfunding, Bitcoin, 3D printing, social media, mashup culture and artisanal production will forever change business and the way we live our lives. …”

“…Coined memes selling for thousands. Bitcoin, gift cards, NFTs, customer data, and game tokens are the new money in an evolving economy. …”

“…In this course you will learn how to: Buy, trade, mine your own, and use cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, Ripple, and DOGE Create your own blockchains for internal enterprise IT applications Create and execute your own smart contracts Learn how to perform cybersecurity audits on blockchains This course was built for anyone who wants to understand how popular cryptocurrencies work including Bitcoins and ETH, as well as professionals needing to implement their own blockchain applications or mine cryptocurrencies, and cybersecurity professionals who need to test and audit Blockchain applications. …”

“…Together, the contributors identify three spheres in which technology shapes how investors make sense of such issues: ESG and Technology: finance professionals need to know about how technological innovations, such as chemical recycling for plastics, in the real economy shape firms' ESG performance; ESG through Technology: technological developments, such as AI and blockchain, can enable finance professionals to offer more fine-grained ESG analyses; and ESG as Technology: the ESG agenda itself is influenced by technological developments that are not well understood by practitioners (e.g., data-mining for Bitcoin creating significant emissions). Using practically relevant examples and recent insights from people working in the field, the book explores the linkages between sustainability, technology and finance in different contexts, and shows how practitioners can accelerate needed change processes. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 1 Blockchain: Distinguishing Facts from Myths Chapter 2 Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency: Current Situation and Future Prospects Chapter 3 Security and Privacy Issues in Blockchained IoT: Principles: Challenges and Counteracting Actions Chapter 4 Survey of Blockchain Techniques for IoT Device Security Chapter 5 Digitized Land Registration Using Blockchain Technology Chapter 6 Towards a Regulatory Framework for the Adoption and Use of Cryptocurrencies in Zimbabwe Chapter 7 Blockchain Technology in the Energy Industry: A Review on Policies and Regulations Chapter 8 Exploring Blockchain-based Government Services in India Chapter 9 Role of Blockchain in the Music Industry Chapter 10 Blockchain Technology: Myths, Realities and Future Chapter 11 Application and Challenges of "Blockchain Technology" in the Oil and Gas Industry Chapter 12 Blockchain Technology in the Banking System in Developing Countries: Potential and Future Trends Chapter 13 Decentralizing Finance - Cryptocurrencies, ICOs, STOs and Tokenization of Assets Chapter 14 Role of Blockchain Technology in Digital Forensics Chapter 15 A Study and Experimentation on Bitcoin Price Forecasting with Time Series Analysis and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)Chapter 16 Blockchain versus IOTA Tangle for Internet of Things: The Best Architecture…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Part 1 Theory -- 1 Protean Power and Control Power: Conceptual Analysis -- 2 Uncertainty, Risk, Power and the Limits of International Relations Theory -- Part 2 Protean Power: Embracing Uncertainty -- 3 Protean Power and Revolutions in Rights -- 4 Protean Power in Movement: Navigating Uncertainty in the LGBT Rights Revolution -- 5 Border Collision: Power Dynamics of Enforcement and Evasion across the US-Mexico Line -- 6 High-Tech: Power and Unpredictability at the Technological Frontier and in Bitcoin -- Part 3 Mixed Worlds: Agility Meets Ability -- 7 Firms in Firmament: Hydrocarbons and the Circulation of Power -- 8 Incomplete Control: The Circulation of Power in Finance -- 9 Terrorism and Protean Power: How Terrorists Navigate Uncertainty -- 10 Slumdog versus Superman: Uncertainty, Innovation, and the Circulation of Power in the Global Film Industry -- Part 4 Protean Power between Risk and Uncertainty -- 11 Changing History?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The protection of cryptocurrencies' owner: selected aspects of Swiss financial market and bankruptcy law in relation to the treatment of cryptocurrencies in bankruptcy proceedings, in particular bitcoin / Olivier Hari -- 8. Blockchains, smart contracts, decentralised autonomous organisations and the law: perspectives of a distributed future: aspects of criminal law / Nadja Capus and Maëlle Le Boudec -- 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Proof-of-work -- Proof-of-stake -- Forking -- Understanding Bitcoin and cryptocurrency -- Bitcoin basics -- What is a wallet? …”

“…It is divided into four main sections, with topics on Bitcoin, blockchain and digital returns, impact of cryptocurrencies in gaming, and cryptocurrency exchanges…”

“…Traditional consensus algorithms all depend on the knowledge of a membership and rely on multi-round voting, which are inevitably highly complex and non-scalable. Bitcoin completely abandoned the traditional approach by converting the leader election into a stochastic process where mining nodes compete to solve a puzzle and the one who solves the puzzle would proceed to creating the next block. …”

“…Learn how: Libra will leverage blockchain, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts within Facebook’s existing platforms A consortium of organizations across business, technology, and nonprofits will govern Libra Facebook’s Calibra digital wallet will work within this ecosystem Libra took ideas from Bitcoin and the greater blockchain community The system needs to scale to billions of users if it is to work across many devices and networks Libra could help people with little or no access to the banking system…”