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1 online resource (631 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Foundations -- Technology (Introduction) -- Economics -- Business applications -- Public key cryptography -- Transactions -- The blockchain -- Wallets -- Mining -- The origins of bitcoin -- Alt(ernative) coins -- Contracts (the Internet of money or cryptocurrencies 2.0) -- The privacy battle -- Odds and ends. |
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Currency question.
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Electronic commerce.
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Electronic funds transfers.
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Data encryption (Computer science)
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Money.
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Commerce électronique. |
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Transferts électroniques de fonds. |
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Chiffrement (Informatique) |
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Currency question |
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Data encryption (Computer science) |
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Electronic commerce |
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Electronic funds transfers |
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Money |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Franco, Pedro. Understanding Bitcoin : Cryptography, Engineering and Economics. Hoboken : Wiley, ©2014 9781119019169 |
| ISBN |
9781119019145 (electronic bk.) |
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1119019141 (electronic bk.) |
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9781119019152 |
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111901915X |
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9781119019138 |
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1119019133 |
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