Steven Goldfeder

Edward Felten

Arvind Narayanan

Andrew Miller

Joseph Bonneau

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. An essential introduction to the new technologies of digital currency Covers the history and mechanics of Bitcoin and the block chain, security, decentralization, anonymity, politics and regulation, altcoins, and much more Features an accompanying website that includes instructional videos for each chapter, homework problems, programming assignments, and lecture slides Also suitable for use with the authors' Coursera online course Electronic solutions manual (available only to professors)

A Comprehensive Introduction

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

Jonathan Anderson

James Malcolm

Frank Stajano

Bruce Christianson

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Security Protocols, held in Cambridge, UK, in March 2013. The volume contains 14 revised papers with transcripts of the presentation and workshop discussion and an introduction, i.e. 15 contributions in total. The theme of the workshop was "What's Happening on the Other Channel?".

21st International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, March 19-20, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

Security Protocols

Nadia Heninger

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2020, held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, in February 2020. The 34 revised full papers and 2 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 162 submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: attacks; consensus; cryptoeconomics; layer 2; secure computation; privacy; crypto foundations; empirical studies; and smart contracts.

24th International Conference, FC 2020 , Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, February 10–14, 2020 Revised Selected Papers

Financial Cryptography and Data Security

Joseph Bonneau

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