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The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains - An Introduction to Cryptocurrencies and the Technology that Powers Them (Broché)
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Résumé
Understanding the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchains can be daunting, but it doesn't have to be. With this comprehensive guide, you'll progressively learn everything you need to know from the history of money and its successes and failures, through a (gentle) introduction to cryptography, to the latest thinking about cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings (ICOs), and enterprise blockchains.
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains provides a balanced and hype-free grounding in the essential concepts behind the revolutionary technology : The evolution of money from physical to digital payments. Hashing, digital signatures, and other cryptographic principles. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies. Blockchain technology for businesses and industry ecosystems. Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and tokens.
Trading and securing cryptoassets. The Basics covers the fundamentals while delighting the reader with little-known tidbits and gems that even industry insiders will enjoy. Author Antony Lewis's skill in explaining complex ideas simply has propelled him to becoming a researcher at a world-leading enterprise blockchain firm R3.
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains provides a balanced and hype-free grounding in the essential concepts behind the revolutionary technology : The evolution of money from physical to digital payments. Hashing, digital signatures, and other cryptographic principles. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies. Blockchain technology for businesses and industry ecosystems. Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and tokens.
Trading and securing cryptoassets. The Basics covers the fundamentals while delighting the reader with little-known tidbits and gems that even industry insiders will enjoy. Author Antony Lewis's skill in explaining complex ideas simply has propelled him to becoming a researcher at a world-leading enterprise blockchain firm R3.
Fiche technique
- Date de parution : 13/04/2021
- Editeur : Mango Media
- ISBN : 978-1-64250-673-0
- EAN : 9781642506730
- Format : Grand Format
- Présentation : Broché
- Nb. de pages : 408 pages
- Poids : 0.422 Kg
- Dimensions : 13,8 cm × 21,2 cm × 2,6 cm
À propos de l'auteur
Biographie d'Antony Lewis
Inspired by a Bitcoin conference in 2013, Antony left a conventional banking career in Singapore to join a little startup called itBit. A Bitcoin exchange, itBit is a website where clients can buy and sell bitcoins, and was one of the first wave of venture capital funded companies in the nascent cryptocurrency industry. In 2015, after itBit raised another round of venture funding and moved its headquarters to New York, Antony left and privately consulted to clients, writing papers and running workshops to explain this new technology to curious professionals.In 2016, Antony joined R3, a financial industry consortium created to collaboratively explore the benefits of blockchain technology. As Director of Research, he explores explains the evolving concepts and technologies to clients, policymakers, and the public. Before becoming obsessed with bitcoins and blockchains, Antony was a technologist at Credit Suisse in London and Singapore, having started his banking career as an FX spot trader at Barclays Capital in 2007.
Antony studied Natural Sciences at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University where he gained two full Blues for sailing and graduated in 2004 with a 2 : 1.
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