Description: Further DetailsTitle: Understanding BitcoinCondition: NewDescription: 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 regarding its continued viability. This authoritative text provides a step-by-step description of how Bitcoin works, starting with public key cryptography and moving on to explain transaction processing, the blockchain and mining technologies. This vital resource reviews Bitcoin from the broader perspective of digital currencies and explores historical attempts at cryptographic currencies. Bitcoin is, after all, not just a digital currency; it's a modern approach to the secure transfer of value using cryptography. This book is a detailed guide to what it is, how it works, and how it just may jumpstart a change in the way digital value changes hands. Understand how Bitcoin works, and the technology behind itDelve into the economics of Bitcoin, and its impact on the financial industryDiscover alt-coins and other available cryptocurrenciesExplore the ideas behind Bitcoin 2.0 technologiesLearn transaction protocols, micropayment channels, atomic cross-chain trading, and more Bitcoin challenges the basic assumption under which the current financial system rests: that currencies are issued by central governments, and their supply is managed by central banks. To fully understand this revolutionary technology, Understanding Bitcoin is a uniquely complete, reader-friendly guide.Author: Pedro FrancoCountry/Region of Manufacture: USEAN: 9781119019169Format: HardbackGenre: Business & FinanceISBN: 9781119019169Item Height: 249mmItem Length: 178mmItem Weight: 662gItem Width: 21mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: John Wiley & Sons IncRelease Date: 10/24/2014Book Series: Wiley Finance SeriesSubtitle: Cryptography, Engineering and EconomicsTopic: Computing & InternetRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Understanding Bitcoin
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
EAN: 9781119019169
Genre: Business & Finance
ISBN: 9781119019169
Release Date: 10/24/2014
Release Year: 2014
Subtitle: Cryptography, Engineering and Economics
Title: Understanding Bitcoin
Topic: Computing & Internet
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Understanding Bitcoin : Cryptography, Engineering and Economics
Language: English
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Finance / General, E-Commerce / General (See Also Computers / Electronic Commerce)
Item Weight: 23.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Business & Economics
Author: Pedro Franco
Item Length: 9.9 in
Series: The Wiley Finance Ser.
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Hardcover
