November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
9h 44m
English
Content preview from Understanding Bitcoin: Cryptography, Engineering and Economics
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INDEX
- accumulators
- witness
- addresses
- Base
- Base and note
- Exodus
- public key
- script
- tampering
- unlocked
- validation
- vanity
- Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
- AES see Advanced Encryption Standard
- alternative coins (alt-coins)
- advantages/disadvantages
- description
- market capitalization
- multipools
- pre-mining
- types
- AML see Anti-Money Laundering
- Anoncoin
- anonymous electronic cash
- anonymous electronic payments see ecash
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
- Aphroditecoin
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
- ASIC see Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
- asset swaps
- assurance contract
- asynchronous multisignature escrow
- ATMs
- atomic cross-chain trading
- attacks, attackers and note
- access to private keys
- block withholding
- blockchain
- central database
- decentralized systems
- denial of service
- double-spend and note, and note
- existential forgery attack
- Finney
- length extension
- Man-in-the-Middle
- quantum computing
- race
- stealth addresses
- Sybil
- wallets
- Zerocoin
- AUR see Auroracoin
- Auroracoin (AUR)
- Austrian School
- autonomous agents
- b-money
- Back, Adam
- Bank Secrecy Act
- BIP
- bit gold
- Bitcoin
- advantages
- anonymous
- applications
- creation
- creator/s
- criticism
- decentralized
- different meanings
- disadvantages
- distributed database
- economics
- effect on financial industry/monetary policy
- features
- hedging volatility
- investment aspect
- media coverage/misconceptions
- network
- open-source code
- origins
- peer-to-peer network
- personal information/transparency
- as Ponzi scheme
- pseudonymity ...
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