Skip to Content
Investigating Cryptocurrencies
book

Investigating Cryptocurrencies

by Nick Furneaux
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
8h 14m
English
Wiley
Audiobook available
Content preview from Investigating Cryptocurrencies

Index

  • 51% attack, 41
  • A
  • addresses
    • change addresses, 177–181
      • Ethereum, 190–191
    • clusters, 181–182, 184
    • ether value, 155
    • Ethereum, change addresses, 190–191
    • filtering multiple, 151
    • Googling, 188
    • graphing, 183
    • history, 82–83
      • exporting, 149–150
    • multi-signature transactions, 157
    • output, 177
    • owners, 178–181
    • private keys, 70
    • public keys and, 70
    • recovered, transaction history, 147–148
    • searches, automated, 135–136
    • temporal patterns, 156–160
    • transactions and, 69
    • unpeeling, 233
    • UTXOs, 74
    • vanity addresses, 83–85, 155
    • wallet addresses, 185
  • Adleman, Leonard, 23
  • AES-256-CBC encryption, 167–168
  • Agent Ransack, 127–130, 134, 137
  • algorithms
    • elliptic curve, 28–29
    • Extended Euclidean Algorithm, 25
    • hashing, MD5, 16–17
  • anonymity, Monero and, 214
  • anonymous data transmission, cover wallets and, 106
  • API (application programming interface), 63
  • ASICs (application specific integrated circuits), 5
    • mining, 88
  • asset seizure, 137–138, 256
    • online wallets, 265
    • private key import, 261–262
    • security, 263–265
    • storage, 263–265
    • without cashing out, 258–259
  • asymmetric cryptography, 23
  • attacks, 51%, 41
  • AXIOM, 131
  • B
  • bank note analogy, 68
  • Base16, hexadecimal values, 18
  • Base58 Check, 69–70
  • Belkasoft, ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Understanding Cryptocurrencies

Understanding Cryptocurrencies

Ariel Santos-Alborna
Crypto Dictionary

Crypto Dictionary

Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology Applications

Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology Applications

Gulshan Shrivastava, Dac-Nhuong Le, Kavita Sharma

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781119480587Purchase book