TY - BOOK ID - 25529281 TI - Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies : a comprehensive introduction AU - Narayanan, Arvind AU - Bonneau, Joseph AU - Felten, Edward AU - Miller, Andrew AU - Goldfeder, Steven PY - 2016 SN - 9780691171692 0691171696 PB - Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - Money. Monetary policy KW - Bitcoin. KW - Electronic funds transfers. KW - Cryptography. KW - Money. KW - Bitcoin KW - Monnaie électronique KW - Cryptographie KW - Monnaie KW - Electronic funds transfers KW - Cryptography KW - Cryptocurrencies KW - Money KW - Monnaie électronique. KW - Cryptographie. KW - Monnaie. KW - Monnaie électronique. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25529281 AB - Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides a comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary yet often misunderstood new technologies of digital currency. Whether you are a student, software developer, tech entrepreneur, or researcher in computer science, this authoritative and self-contained book tells you everything you need to know about the new global money for the Internet age. How do Bitcoin and its block chain actually work? How secure are your bitcoins? How anonymous are their users? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? These are some of the many questions this book answers. It begins by tracing the history and development of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, and then gives the conceptual and practical foundations you need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network as well as to integrate ideas from Bitcoin into your own projects. Topics include decentralization, mining, the politics of Bitcoin, altcoins and the cryptocurrency ecosystem, the future of Bitcoin, and more ER -