Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, Steven Goldfeder, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies, Princeton: Princeton University Press (forthcoming), 2016. This textbook closely follows the video lectures in the course. The official and professionally done version of the book will be out this summer.
Introduction to the book
There’s a lot of excitement about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Optimists claim that Bitcoin will
fundamentally alter payments, economics, and even politics around the world. Pessimists claim
Bitcoin is inherently broken and will suffer an inevitable and spectacular collapse.
Underlying these differing views is significant confusion about what Bitcoin is and how it works. We
wrote this book to help cut through the hype and get to the core of what makes Bitcoin unique.
To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, we need to understand how it works at a technical
level. Bitcoin truly is a new technology and we can only get so far by explaining it through simple
analogies to past technologies.
We’ll assume that you have a basic understanding of computer science — how computers work, data
structures and algorithms, and some programming experience. If you’re an undergraduate or
graduate student of computer science, a software developer, an entrepreneur, or a technology
hobbyist, this textbook is for you.
In this book we’ll address the important questions about Bitcoin. How does Bitcoin work? What
makes it different? How secure are your bitcoins? How anonymous are Bitcoin users? What
applications can we build using Bitcoin as a platform? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? If we were
designing a new cryptocurrency today, what would we change? What might the future hold?
Each chapter has a series of homework questions to help you understand these questions at a deeper
level. In addition, there is a series of programming assignments in which you’ll implement various
components of Bitcoin in simplified models. If you’re an auditory learner, most of the material of this
book is also available as a series of video lectures. You can find all these on our Coursera course . You
should also supplement your learning with information you can find online including the Bitcoin wiki,
forums, and research papers, and by interacting with your peers and the Bitcoin community.
After reading this book, you’ll know everything you need to be able to separate fact from fiction when
reading claims about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. You’ll have the conceptual foundations you
need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network. And you’ll be able to
integrate ideas from Bitcoin into your own projects.
https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech
Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University
Joseph Bonneau, Princeton University
Edward Felten, Princeton University
Andrew Miller, University of Maryland
借着这本书谈一点对区块链的看法。前几天区块链又借着领导人的谈话火了一下,其峰值热度高到似乎逢人不说一点区块链都有点out了。那么什么是区块链?有不少人马上就想到比特币等数字货币,把区块链和数字货币划等号了,显然这路人错的离谱到对其多说一个字都是在浪费自己宝贵生...
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评分这篇比特币FAQ试图以FAQ的形式对比特币做一个简单的介绍。主要参考了比特币白皮书和普林斯顿大学的教材《区块链:技术驱动金融》,当然不可避免的包含了很多个人理解,欢迎探讨。 【2017-08-10初稿 / 2020-05-01小幅更新】 1.什么是比特币? 比特币是一种数字货币,它不依赖于...
评分本书的翻译实在是太烂了。专有名词的错误就已经比比皆是。 In this book we’ll address the important questions about Bitcoin. How does Bitcoin work? What makes it different? How secure are your bitcoins? How anonymous are Bitcoin users? 本书将讨论比特币的一系列...
the best book so far on blockchain ,to help build up a complete , thorough yet basic understanding , recommend for beginners
评分The BitCoin Pub/Priv Key System is Just a Cyclic SubGroup of Elliptic Curve Group over The Prime Finite Field.
评分讲的东西很多,结构非常清晰
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评分我接触到区块链最好的入门书,配合普林斯顿的公开课,花一个月时间好好研究一下。比看再多的科普文章都划得来。他不仅介绍技术,还有很多应用以及价值上的解释。不要犹豫,开始看吧!
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