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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, kõrgus x laius: 233x178 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2020
  • Kirjastus: O'Reilly Media
  • ISBN-10: 1492054704
  • ISBN-13: 9781492054702
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The future will be increasingly distributed. As the publicity surrounding Bitcoin and blockchain has shown, distributed technology and business models are gaining popularity. Yet the disruptive potential of this technology is often obscured by hype and misconception. In this detailed guide, Lorne Lantz and Daniel Cawrey distill the complex, fast-moving ideas behind blockchain into an easily digestible reference manual, showing what's really going on under the hood.

Finance and technology pros will learn how a blockchain works as they explore the evolution and current state of the technology, including the functions of cryptocurrencies and smart contracts. This book is for anyone evaluating whether to invest time in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Go beyond buzzwords and see what the technology really has to offer.

  • Learn why Bitcoin was fundamentally important in blockchain's birth
  • Explore altcoin and alternative blockchain projects to understand what's possible
  • Understand the challenges of scaling a blockchain and forking a blockchain
  • Learn what Ethereum and other blockchains offer beyond Bitcoin
  • Examine emerging business uses for blockchain beyond cryptocurrency
  • Discover where the future lies in this exciting new technology
Preface xiii
1 Origins of Blockchain Technology
1(22)
Electronic Systems and Trust
1(1)
Distributed Versus Centralized Versus Decentralized
2(5)
Bitcoin Predecessors
7(3)
DigiCash
7(1)
E-Gold
8(1)
Hashcash
8(1)
B-Money
9(1)
Bit Gold
9(1)
The Bitcoin Experiment
10(7)
The 2008 Financial Crisis
10(1)
The Whitepaper
11(2)
Introducing the Timestamp Server
13(1)
Storing Data in a Chain of Blocks
13(4)
Bringing Bitcoin to Life
17(5)
Compelling Components
17(1)
Achieving Consensus
18(2)
An Early Vulnerability
20(1)
Adoption
21(1)
Summary
22(1)
2 Cryptocurrency Fundamentals
23(36)
Public and Private Keys in Cryptocurrency Systems
24(1)
The UTXO Model
25(1)
Transactions
26(7)
The Merkle Root
28(2)
Signing and Validating Transactions
30(1)
The Coinbase Transaction
31(1)
Bitcoin Transaction Security
31(2)
Hashes
33(3)
Block Hashes
34(2)
Custody: Who Holds the Keys
36(3)
Wallet Types: Custodial Versus Noncustodial
36(1)
Wallet Type Variations
37(2)
Security Fundamentals
39(2)
Recovery Seed
40(1)
Mining
41(3)
Mining Is About Incentives
42(1)
Block Generation
43(1)
Consensus
44(10)
Proof-of-Work
44(7)
Proof-of-Stake
51(2)
Other Concepts for Consensus
53(1)
Stakeholders
54(3)
Brokerages
55(1)
Exchanges
55(1)
Custody
56(1)
Analytics
56(1)
Information
57(1)
Summary
57(2)
3 Forks and Altchains
59(20)
Bitcoin Improvement Proposals
59(2)
Understanding Forks
61(4)
Contentious Hard Forks
62(3)
The Bitcoin Cash Fork
65(2)
Altcoins
67(1)
Litecoin
68(2)
More Altcoin Experiments
69(1)
"2.0" Chains
70(1)
NXT
70(1)
Counterparty
70(1)
Privacy-Focused Cryptocurrencies
71(1)
Dash
71(1)
Monero
71(1)
Zcash
71(1)
Ripple and Stellar
72(1)
Ripple
72(1)
Stellar
73(1)
Scaling Blockchains
73(4)
SegWit
74(1)
Lightning
75(1)
Other Altchain Solutions
76(1)
The Ethereum Classic Fork
77(1)
Summary
78(1)
4 The Evolution to Ethereum
79(24)
Improving Bitcoin's Limited Functionality
79(5)
Colored Coins and Tokens
80(1)
Mastercoin and Smart Contracts
80(1)
Understanding Omni Layer
80(4)
Ethereum: Taking Mastercoin to the Next Level
84(6)
Ether and Gas
85(1)
Use Cases: ICOs
86(1)
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
87(1)
Key Organizations in the Ethereum Ecosystem
88(2)
Decentralized Applications (Dapps)
90(1)
Use Cases
90(1)
Challenges in Developing Dapps
91(1)
Deploying and Executing Smart Contracts in Ethereum
91(10)
The Ethereum Virtual Machine
92(7)
Gas and Pricing
99(2)
Interacting with Code
101(1)
Summary
101(2)
5 Tokenize Everything
103(20)
Tokens on the Ethereum Platform
105(3)
Fungible and Nonfungible Tokens
105(1)
Is a Token Necessary?
106(1)
Airdrops
107(1)
Different Token Types
107(1)
Understanding Ethereum Requests for Comment
108(8)
ERC-20
108(4)
ERC-721
112(2)
ERC-777
114(2)
ERC-1155
116(1)
Multisignature Contracts
116(3)
Decentralized Exchange Contracts
119(2)
Summary
121(2)
6 Market Infrastructure
123(32)
Evolution of the Price of Bitcoin
123(2)
The Role of Exchanges
125(9)
Order Books
126(2)
Slippage
128(1)
Depth Charts
129(1)
Jurisdiction
129(2)
Wash Trading
131(1)
Whales
131(2)
Derivatives
133(1)
Cryptocurrency Market Structure
134(5)
Arbitrage
135(1)
Counterparty Risk
135(3)
Market Data
138(1)
Analysis
139(5)
Fundamental Cryptocurrency Analysis
140(2)
Technical Cryptocurrency Analysis
142(2)
Arbitrage Trading
144(2)
Timing and Managing Float
144(1)
Float Configuration 1
145(1)
Float Configuration 2
145(1)
Float Configuration 3
146(1)
Regulatory Challenges
146(2)
Banking Risk
147(1)
Exchange Risk
148(1)
Basic Mistakes
148(1)
Exchange APIs and Trading Bots
148(5)
Open Source Trading Tech
151(1)
Rate Limiting
152(1)
REST Versus WebSocket
152(1)
Testing in a Sandbox
152(1)
Market Aggregators
153(1)
Summary
153(2)
7 Decentralizing Finance and the Web
155(34)
Redistribution of Trust
155(3)
Identity and the Dangers of Hacking
155(1)
Wallets
156(1)
Private Keys
157(1)
Naming Services
157(1)
Decentralizing Finance
158(5)
Important Definitions
158(2)
Stablecoins
160(3)
DeFi Services
163(1)
Lending
163(1)
Savings
163(1)
Derivatives
163(1)
Decentralized Exchanges
164(9)
Decentralized Versus Centralized Exchanges
164(9)
Flash Loans
173(9)
Creating a Flash Loan Contract
174(2)
Deploying the Contract
176(1)
Executing a Flash Loan
177(3)
Flash Loans for Arbitrage
180(1)
The Fulcrum Exploit
180(2)
Privacy
182(4)
Zero-Knowledge Proof
183(3)
Zcash
186(1)
Ring Signatures
186(1)
Web 3.0
186(1)
Summary
187(2)
8 Catch Me If You Can
189(22)
The Evolution of Crypto Laundering
190(2)
FinCEN Guidance and the Beginning of Regulation
192(2)
The FATF and the Travel Rule
194(1)
Skirting the Laws
194(2)
Avoiding Scrutiny: Regulatory Arbitrage
196(3)
Malta
196(1)
Singapore
197(1)
Hong Kong
197(1)
Bahamas
198(1)
Crypto-Based Stablecoins
199(1)
NuBits
199(1)
Digix
199(1)
Basis
200(1)
Tether
200(1)
Initial Coin Offerings
200(3)
Founder Intentions
201(1)
Token Economics
202(1)
Whitepaper
202(1)
Exchange Hacks
203(3)
Mt. Gox
203(2)
Bitfinex
205(1)
Coincheck
206(1)
NiceHash
206(1)
Other Hacks
206(3)
Bloomberg TV BTC Stolen
206(1)
EtherDelta Redirection
206(1)
CryptoLocker and Ransomware
207(1)
SIM Swapping
207(2)
Summary
209(2)
9 Other Blockchains
211(20)
What Are Blockchains Good For?
211(2)
Databases and Ledgers
213(1)
Decentralization Versus Centralization
214(1)
Participants
214(1)
Key Properties of Distributed Verifiable Ledgers
214(1)
Ethereum-Based Privacy Implementations
215(1)
Nightfall
215(1)
Quorum
215(1)
Enterprise Implementations
215(5)
Hyperledger
216(1)
Corda
216(3)
DAML
219(1)
Blockchain as a Service
220(1)
Banking
221(1)
The Royal Mint
221(2)
Banque de France
221(1)
China
222(1)
US Federal Reserve
222(1)
JPMorgan
223(1)
Permissioned Ledger Uses
223(3)
It
223(1)
Banking
223(1)
Central Bank Digital Currencies
224(1)
Legal
224(1)
Gaming
224(1)
Health Care
225(1)
Internet of Things
225(1)
Payments
226(1)
Libra
226(4)
The Libra Association
226(1)
Borrowing from Existing Blockchains
227(1)
Novi
228(1)
How the Libra Protocol Works
228(2)
Summary
230(1)
10 The Future of Blockchain
231(18)
The More Things Change
232(1)
Blockchains to Watch
233(4)
How Monero Works
234(3)
Mimblewimble, Beam, and Grin
237(1)
The Scaling Problem
237(9)
Sidechains
238(1)
Sharding
238(1)
STARKs
238(1)
DAGs
238(1)
Avalanche
239(1)
Liquid
239(1)
Lightning
239(6)
Ethereum Scaling
245(1)
Privacy
246(1)
Interoperability
247(1)
Tokenize Everything
247(1)
Summary
247(2)
Index 249
Lorne Lantz has been educating the world on blockchain, including German bankers at TedX Hamburg. Lorne is an O'Reilly blockchain expert, producing educational videos on the blockchain. He was technical reviewer for "Mastering Bitcoin" and co-chair of the O'Reilly Bitcoin & Blockchain conference. Lorne has built blockchain stacks including remittances, crypto wallets, POS, forex, crypto trading and ICO investing.

Daniel Cawrey first became involved with blockchain technology as Contributing Editor for CoinDesk, the largest information resource for the blockchain and digital currency industry. He co-wrote the Velocity whitepaper, a decentralized derivatives concept for the Ethereum blockchain. He is CEO Pactum Capital, a financial services firm focused on market making and liquidity technologies.