Understanding Bitcoin: Cryptography, Engineering and Economics 9781119019169, 1119019168

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Dedication
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Prologue
Preface
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND ECONOMICS
CHAPTER 1 Foundations
1.1 Decentralized
1.2 Open Source
1.3 Public Asset Ledger
1.4 It’s Not Only the Currency, It’s the Technology
CHAPTER 2 Technology (Introduction)
2.1 Centralized Database
2.2 Addresses, Transactions
2.3 Distributed Database, the Blockchain
2.4 Wallets
2.5 The Different Meanings of Bitcoin
CHAPTER 3 Economics
3.1 Medium of Exchange
3.1.1 Pros
3.1.2 Cons
3.2 Store of Value
3.2.1 Bitcoin as Investment
3.2.2 Pros
3.2.3 Cons
3.3 Unit of Account
3.4 Deflation
3.5 Volatility
3.6 Effect on the Financial Industry and Monetary Policy
3.7 Regulation
CHAPTER 4 Business Applications
4.1 Money Transfer
4.2 Exchanges
4.3 Payment Processors
4.4 Web Wallets
4.5 Multisignature Escrow Services
4.6 Mining
4.7 ATMs
PART TWO: BITCOIN TECHNOLOGY
CHAPTER 5 Public Key Cryptography
5.1 Public Key Encryption
5.2 Digital Signatures
5.3 RSA
5.4 Elliptic Curve Cryptography
5.4.1 Elliptic Curve Summary
5.4.2 Elliptic Curve Theory
5.5 Other Cryptographic Primitives
5.5.1 Blind Signatures
5.5.2 Shamir Secret Sharing
5.6 Bitcoin Addresses
CHAPTER 6 Transactions
6.1 Transaction Scripts
6.2 Pay-to-address and Pay-to-public-key Transactions
6.3 Multisignature (m-of-n) Transactions
6.4 Other Transaction Types
6.5 Transaction Signature
6.6 Pay-to-script-hash (P2SH)
6.7 Standard Transactions
CHAPTER 7 The Blockchain
7.1 Hash Functions
7.2 Time-stamp
7.3 Proof-of-work
7.4 The Blockchain
7.5 Double-spend and Other Attacks
7.5.1 Race Attack
7.5.2 Finney Attack
7.5.3 Transaction Spamming
7.6 Merkle Trees
7.6.1 Transaction Malleability
7.7 Scalability
CHAPTER 8 Wallets
8.1 Symmetric-key Cryptography
8.2 Offline Wallets
8.2.1 External Storage Media
8.2.2 Paper Wallets
8.2.3 Offline Devices
8.2.4 Hardware Wallets
8.3 Web Wallets
8.4 Brain Wallets
8.5 Deterministic Wallets
8.5.1 Message Authentication Code (MAC)
8.5.2 Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets
8.6 Multisignature Wallets
8.7 Vanity addresses
8.8 Simplified Payment Verification (SPV)
8.9 The “Payment Protocol” (BIP 70)
CHAPTER 9 Mining
9.1 Mining Technology
9.2 Pooled Mining
9.3 Transaction Fees
9.4 Selfish Mining
PART THREE: THE CRYPTOCURRENCIES LANDSCAPE
CHAPTER 10 The Origins of Bitcoin
10.1 David Chaum’s Ecash
10.2 Adam Back’s Hashcash
10.3 Nick Szabo’s bit gold and Wei Dai’s b-money
10.4 Sander and Ta-Shma’s Auditable, Anonymous Electronic Cash
10.5 Hal Finney’s RPOW
10.6 Satoshi Nakamoto
CHAPTER 11 Alt(ernative) Coins
11.1 Litecoin
11.2 Peercoin
11.3 Namecoin
11.4 Auroracoin
11.5 Primecoin
11.6 Dogecoin
11.7 Freicoin
11.8 Other Alt-coins
11.9 The Case For/Against Alt-coins
CHAPTER 12 Contracts (the Internet of Money or Cryptocurrencies 2.0)
12.1 Digital Assets
12.2 Smart Property
12.3 Micropayments
12.4 Autonomous Agents
12.5 Other Applications
12.5.1 Crowd-funding
12.5.2 External State Contract
12.5.3 Contract for Differences
12.5.4 Distributed Exchange
12.5.5 Deposits
12.5.6 Saving Addresses
12.6 Inserting Data into the Blockchain
12.7 Meta-coins
12.7.1 Colored Coins
12.7.2 Counterparty
12.7.3 Ethereum
12.7.4 Mastercoin
12.7.5 Nxt
12.7.6 Ripple
CHAPTER 13 The Privacy Battle
13.1 Network Analysis
13.2 Laundry Services
13.3 Greenlisting
13.4 Privacy-enhancing Technologies
13.4.1 CoinJoin
13.4.2 CoinSwap
13.4.3 Stealth Addresses
13.4.4 Merge Avoidance
13.4.5 Committed Transactions
13.5 Fully Anonymous Decentralized Currencies
13.5.1 Zero-knowledge Proofs
13.5.2 Zero-knowledge Proof of Graph 3-colorability
13.5.3 Zero-knowledge Proof for the Discrete Logarithm
13.5.4 Non-interactive Zero-knowledge Proofs
13.5.5 Accumulators
13.5.6 Zerocoin
13.5.7 Zerocash
CHAPTER 14 Odds and Ends
14.1 Other Transaction Protocols
14.1.1 Micropayment Channels
14.1.2 Atomic Cross-chain Trading
14.2 Alternatives to Proof-of-work
14.2.1 Proof-of-stake
14.2.2 Proof-of-burn
14.3 Merged Mining
14.4 Side-chains
14.5 Open Transactions
14.6 Quantum Computing
14.7 Recent Advances in Cryptography
14.7.1 Homomorphic Encryption
14.7.2 Obfuscation
Bibliography
Index
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