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.
