| Description |
1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- About the Author -- Preface -- Who Is this Book For? -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- What Should You Know Before Reading this Book? -- Key Terms to Know Before Reading -- Why Learn About Blockchains? -- Chapter 1 What Are Blockchains For? -- Provenance and Trust -- Downtime -- Not for Everything -- Chapter 2 Basic Principles of Blockchain -- Block Structure -- Hashing -- Hash Represented as Hexadecimal and Decimal Numbers -- Collisions -- Hashing in Blockchains -- Merkle Tree |
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Difficulty and Nonce -- The Nonce -- The Difficulty Target -- Chapter 3 Decentralized Computing -- Partial Nodes -- References -- Chapter 4 Forks -- Accidental Forks -- Example -- Update Fork -- Soft Fork -- Hard Fork -- Relationship to Hash Power -- References -- Chapter 5 Cryptocurrencies -- What Are the Benefits of Cryptocurrencies? -- Fees -- Control -- More Confidential Transactions -- Protection Against Fraud -- Secure -- Flexible -- Transparency -- Easy to Carry -- What Are Wallets? -- Encryption -- Shared Key Encryption -- Asymmetric Encryption -- Signatures -- Elliptic Curve Cryptography |
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Wallets and Keys -- Base-58 -- Wallet Types -- Hosted Wallets -- Collisions -- Chapter 6 Coins and Transactions -- Fungible and Non-Fungible Assets -- UTXO Model -- Account Model -- Mixers -- Mempool -- References -- Chapter 7 Mining -- Consensus Mechanisms -- Proof of Work (PoW) -- Proof of Stake (PoS) -- Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) -- Other Consensus Mechanisms -- Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET) -- Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) -- Proof of Authority and Proof of Reputation (PoA AND PoR/PoRe) -- Mixed Methods -- Miner Capitulation -- Miner Capitulation By Price Drop |
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Miner Capitulation Through Competition -- Mining Pools -- Halvings and the Halvening -- Previous Bitcoin Halvings -- References -- Chapter 8 Summary of Blockchain So Far -- In the Previous Chapters -- Chapter 9 Blockchain 2.0 -- Smart Contracts -- Virtual Machines -- Junk Data, Computational Costs and Gas -- DApps -- Summary of DApp Structure -- Smart Contracts Vulnerabilities and Security -- Overflow -- Re-entrancy Attack -- Testnets -- Local Testing -- Tokenization -- Stable Coins -- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) -- References -- Chapter 10 Public and Private Blockchains |
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Certification and PKI -- Overview -- Digital Certificates -- Certificate Authorities -- Root Certificate Authorities (RCAs) and Intermediate Certificate Authorities (ICAs) -- Certificate Revocation Lists -- Membership Service Providers (MSPs) -- Ordering Services -- Channels -- World State -- Blocks and Transactions -- Block Header Structure From the Hyperledger Documentation -- Transactions -- Consensus Mechanisms -- References -- Chapter 11 Privacy Coins -- Why Is Privacy Important? -- KYC Legislation -- On-chain Analysis -- Anonymity Set -- HD Wallets -- An Example -- CoinJoin -- Dash Coin |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Monero and CryptoNote |
| Subject |
Blockchains (Databases)
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Cryptocurrencies.
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cryptocurrencies.
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Blockchains (Databases)
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Cryptocurrencies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000549201 |
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1000549208 |
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