Franco, Pedro

Understanding bitcoin : cryptography, engineering and economics - Chichester : Wiley, 2014 - xx, 268 p. ; ill., 26 cm - Wiley Finance Series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 to the cryptography, engineering and economic development of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This comprehensive, yet accessible work fully explores the supporting economic realities and technological advances of Bitcoin, and presents positive and negative arguments from various economic schools.

9781119019169


Data encryption
Electronic commerce
Electronic funds transfers
Money
Currency question
Transaction systems
Computer science
Computer systems
Fiat currency
Alt coins
b-money
2.0 technologies
Transaction protocols
Micropayment channels
Atomic cross-chain trading
Meta-coins
Laundry services
Merkle trees;
Mining
Non-interactive zero-knowledge proof(NIZKP)
Privacy-enhancing technologies
RSA encryption scheme
Zerocoin
Blockchain
Obfuscation

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