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020			_a978-0-691-17169-2
040			_cIZA
100			_aNarayanan, Arvind _94835
245			_aBitcoin and Crpytocurrency Technologies: A comprehensive Introduction
260			_aPrinceton NJ, _bPrinceton University Press, _c2016
300			_a304 pages
520			_aBitcoin 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 blockchain actually work? How secure are your bitcoins? How anonymous are users of cryptocurrencies? 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.
653			_abitcoins
653			_ablockchain
653			_acryptocurrency
653			_adigital currency
653			_atextbook
856			_uhttp://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/ _yPublisher's website
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