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Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences, Association of American Publishers "For people interested in the inner workings of Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies, this is an excellent book."--Choice

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PREFACE vii FOREWORD The Long Road to Bitcoin ix Jeremy clark 1 Introduction to Cryptography and Cryptocurrencies 1 2 How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization 27 3 Mechanics of Bitcoin 51 4 How to Store and Use Bitcoins 76 5 Bitcoin Mining 104 6 Bitcoin and Anonymity 138 7 Community, Politics, and Regulation 168 8 Alternative Mining Puzzles 190 9 Bitcoin as a Platform 213 10 Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem 242 11 Decentralized Institutions: The Future of Bitcoin? 272 CONCLUSION 286 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 287 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 289 INDEX 291

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

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    A Hardback by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 19 July 2016
      ISBN-13 9780691171692
      978-0691171692
      ISBN-10 0691171696
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      Computing Digital and IT general topics Social and ethical aspects

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences, Association of American Publishers "For people interested in the inner workings of Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies, this is an excellent book."--Choice

      Table of Contents
      PREFACE vii FOREWORD The Long Road to Bitcoin ix Jeremy clark 1 Introduction to Cryptography and Cryptocurrencies 1 2 How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization 27 3 Mechanics of Bitcoin 51 4 How to Store and Use Bitcoins 76 5 Bitcoin Mining 104 6 Bitcoin and Anonymity 138 7 Community, Politics, and Regulation 168 8 Alternative Mining Puzzles 190 9 Bitcoin as a Platform 213 10 Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem 242 11 Decentralized Institutions: The Future of Bitcoin? 272 CONCLUSION 286 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 287 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 289 INDEX 291

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