Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

Livro digital

Título:
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

Autor:
Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, Steven Goldfeder, Jeremy Clark

Categoria:
Tecnologia > DevOps

Doador:
Raffaello D. N.

Sinopse:
The opening flow is unusually concrete: it moves from barter and forms of money to decentralized cyber-currencies, then introduces Bitcoin, transaction models, wallets, payment services, and exchanges. That structure gives the reader a grounded path into the problem of why money needs protocol-enforced scarcity and unforgeability in the first place. The material is built like a course rather than a single-author narrative, with Cornell CS 5437 framing, instructor notes, prerequisites, grading, and a semester plan. It blends probability, distributed systems, game theory, and cryptography with real-world challenges, analysis tools, and Bitcoin-family systems, while also pointing to related texts and papers. The result is a strong technical overview for readers who want the ideas behind cryptocurrency systems, not just the headlines. It shows how decentralized money works, where its limits come from, and why the topic sits at the intersection of security, protocols, economics, and systems design.