The bitcoin big bang :how alternative currencies are about to change the world
Hoboken, New Jersey
Wiley
2015
xv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes index
Brian Kelly
Machine generated contents note: Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii About the Author xv Chapter 1 Bitcoin Is a Bubble 1 The Quest to Buy Bitcoin 3 Bitcoin Enlightenment 6 Currencies Are a Matter of Trust 8 What Is Bitcoin? 01 Is It a Currency? 31 It's Revolutionary 71 Chapter 2 Understanding the Digital Gold Rush 91 The Language of Bitcoin 22 How Do I Buy Bitcoin? 62 Who "Gets" It? 03 The Gold Rush Is Just Starting 13 Chapter 3 Bitcoin Is More than Digital Gold 33 Searching for Satoshi 43 The Search 73 Why Is Satoshi a Genius? 44 Bigger than Satoshi 64 Chapter 4 Byzantine Generals' Problem 94 How Does Bitcoin Solve the BGP? 25 15 Percent Attack 55 An Elegant Solution 75 Chapter 5 A Decentralized Financial System 95 Grand De-Central Station 36 What's at Stake? 96 Central Banks 27 Bitcoin Is the Catalyst 37 Chapter 6 What Do You Call a Bitcoin Miner? A Banker 57 How Does a Bitcoin Transaction Work? 77 What Is Cryptography? 87 Still Want to Be a Miner? 28 Do We Need Another Bitcoin? 88 Chapter 7 Nautiluscoin--0 to