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Author:   Karan Singh Garewal
Publisher:   APress
Imprint:   APress
Edition:   1st ed.
Weight:   0.972kg
ISBN:  

9781484258927

ISBN 10:   1484258924
Pages:   489
Publication Date:   04 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Chapter 1:  The History of Money and Alternate Currencies Chapter Goal: Explain the historical evolution of money and alternate currencies prior to bitcoin Sub-Topics 1. Characteristics of money 2. Gold and silver backed currencies 3. Gold standard and fiat currencies 4. Alternate currencies prior to bitcoin (Liberty coin, etc.) 5. Bitcoin 6. The Darknet 7. Future evolution of cryptocurrencies Chapter 2:  Bitcoin and Altcoins Chapter Goal: Discussion of bitcoin and altcoins in circulation and their properties and their raison d’etre. Sub-Topics 1. Introduction 2. Bitcoin 3. Ethereum 4. Monero 5. Ripple 6. Stellar, Tron, and other cryptocurrencies Chapter 3: Cryptographic Hash Functions  Chapter Goal: Explain cryptographic hash functions, their characteristics, and why they are important in blockchain and cryptocurrency application development. Sub-Topics          1. Introduction 2. Cryptographic hash functions 3. The collision free property of cryptographic hash functions 4. Proving the tamper free property 5. The irreversible property 6. The unique range property 7. Hash pointers and data structures 8. Proving authenticity with crytpographic hashes 9. The SHA-256 cryptographic hash 10. Common cryptographic hash functions  Chapter 4:  Symmetric Encryption Chapter Goal: Explain what symmetric encryption is and it’s deficiency in secure key distribution Sub-Topics:         1.     Introduction 2.     How symmetric encryption works 3.     The key distribution problem 4.     Common symmetric encryption algorithms Chapter 5: Public Key Cryptography Chapter Goal: Explain what public key cryptography is and how it works Sub-Topics: 1. Introduction 2.  Algorithms to generate public private key pairs 3.  RSA and elliptic curve cryptography 4.  Using public–private key pairs for encryption and decryption 5.  Identity formation and proof with public keys 6.  Generating globally unique IDs Chapter 6:  Digital Signatures Chapter Goal: Show how the digital signature algorithm is implemented and how it can be used to prove authorship and authenticity of documents Sub-Topics: 1. Introduction 2. Creating digital signatures 3. Proving authorship and authenticity of documents Chapter 7:  Blockchain Construction Chapter Goal: Discuss properties of a blockchain and how to create a blockchain Sub-Topics: 1.  Introduction 2.  Properties of blockchain 3.  How to create a blockchain 4.  The bitcoin blockchain 5.  Scalability issues in blockchain 6.  Blockchain databases 7.  The genesis block 8.   Creating a simple cryptocurrency Chapter 8:  The Merkle Tree Algorithm Chapter Goal: A discussion of the Merkle tree algorithm along with source code implementations Sub-Topics: 1.  Introduction 2.  Implementation of the Merkle tree algorithm   Chapter 9:  Topology of Cryptocurrency Networks Chapter Goal: What is a peer-to-peer network and the use of such P2P networks in blockchain applications to broadcast and verify transactions. Sub-Topics: 1.  Introduction 2.  Peer-to-peer networks 3.  Node identity and supernodes 4.  The bitcoin blockchain 5.  Block and transaction propagation   Chapter 10:  Cryptocurrency Parameters and Configuration Chapter Goal: Enumerate some common configuration parameters that are used when creating a cryptocurrency and their implications. Sub-Topics: 1.  Introduction 2.  Common cryptocurrency parameters   Chapter 11:  Cryptocurrency Addresses Chapter Goal: Creating and using cryptocurrency addresses Sub-Topics: 1.  Introduction 2.  How to make a cryptocurrency address 3.  How bitcoin uses addresses 4.  Key generation algorithms 5.  Hierarchical deterministic key generation   Chapter 12:  Cryptocurrency Transactions Chapter Goal: How transactions are implemented and broadcast in a cryptocurrency network. Sub-Topics: 1.  Introduction 2.  Transaction mechanics 3.  Canonical transaction structures 4.  Broadcasting transactions 5.  Transaction validation 6.  How bitcoin implements transactions 7.  Locking and unlocking transactions 8.  Transaction fees   Chapter 13:  Cryptocurrency Storage Chapter Goal: Discuss methods for storing cryptocurrencies Sub-Topics: 1.  Introduction 2.  Cold storage and hot storage 3.  Wallets and local storage 4.  Storage on the blockchain 5.  Online wallets 6.   Exchanges   Chapter 14:  Mining Chapter Goal: Explain how blocks are mined in a cryptocurrency network  Sub-Topics: 1.  Introduction 2.  How mining works 3.  Incentives for block formation 4.  Bitcoin mining 5.  Chainstate database 6.  Proof of work and the difficulty number 7.  Energy consumption 8.  ASIC resistant mining 9.  Mining attacks 10.  Proof of stake and virtual mining 11.  Hash power computations   Chapter 15:  The Bitcoin Distributed Consensus Algorithm Chapter Goal: Discussion of the distributed consensus algorithm in bitcoin Sub-Topics: 1.  Introduction 2.   Consensus formation in bitcoin 3.   Blockchain forks 4.   Double spend resolution in the bitcoin network   Chapter 16:   Alternate Distributed Consensus Algorithms Chapter Goal: Discussion of distributed consensus algorithm that is not based on bitcoin’s proof of work algorithm Sub-Topics: 1.  Introduction 2.  Proof of stake distributed consensus 3.  Delegated proof of stake 4.  Proof of weight algorithms 5.  The Byzantine Generals problem 6.   Byzantine Fault tolerance 7.   Federated Byzantine agreement algorithm 8.    Proof of weight, DAGs, and other algorithms      Chapter 17:   Working at Scale Chapter Goal: How to build blockchain and cryptocurrency applications that scale Sub-Topics: 1.  Introduction 2.  Scalability in the bitcoin network 3.  Subchains 4.   The lightening network 5.   Sharded networks 6.   Other solutions   Chapter 18:   Anonymous Cryptocurrency Networks Chapter Goal: Discussion of anonymity in cryptocurrency networks Sub-Topics: 1.  Introduction 2.  Why bitcoin is not an anonymous currency 3.  Some simple precautions for bitcoin transactions 4.  Mixers 5.  Implementing anonymity for a cryptocurrency 6.   Using Tor   Chapter 19: Designing a Cryptocurrency   Chapter Goal: Architecture and logical design principles in cryptocurrency creation Sub-Topics: 1.  Introduction 2.  Network architectures 3.  Blockchain specification and implementation 4.  Database implementation 5.  Transaction specification 6.  Selecting a distributed consensus algorithm 7.  The mining algorithm 8.  The money supply 9.   The velocity of money 10.  Creating the genesis block 11.  Founder’s reserve 12.  Language selection 13.  Bon voyage   Appendix:  Installing and Using a Bitcoin Node Chapter Goal: Install a full Bitcoin node on a Linux machine

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Karan Singh Garewal is an attorney at law in Canada. He has over 20 years of software development experience in C, C++, Go, JavaScript, Node, Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, Vue, PostgresSQL, MySQL, and Cassandra. His current interests are in financial engineering and real-time algorithmic trading systems. He is developing a neural network cryptocurrency trading platform on a C++, Go, Cassandra, and Vue stack.

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