Thursday 31 August 2017

Resources: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides a comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary yet often misunderstood new technologies of digital currency.


Whether you are a student, software developer, tech entrepreneur, or researcher in computer science, this authoritative and self-contained book tells you everything you need to know about the new global money for the Internet age.


So what questions will the book help you to answers:
  • How do Bitcoin and its block chain actually work?
  • How secure are your bitcoins?
  • How anonymous are their users?
  • Can cryptocurrencies be regulated?

A pre-publication draft of the book is available for download here, whilst a series of video lectures that follows the textbook content, plus programming assignments and quizzes is available here.