LEADER 04408nam 22006375 450 001 9910822888603321 005 20230713023159.0 010 $a3-031-02352-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-02352-1 035 $a(CKB)5580000000323302 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-02352-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4894930 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000323302 100 $a20220601d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlocks and Chains $eIntroduction to Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and Their Consensus Mechanisms /$fby Aljosha Judmayer, Nicholas Stifter, Katharina Krombholz, Edgar Weippl 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XIII, 109 p.) 225 1 $aSynthesis Lectures on Information Security, Privacy, and Trust,$x1945-9750 311 $a3-031-00236-9 311 $a3-031-01224-0 327 $aAcknowledgments -- Introduction -- Background -- History of Cryptographic Currencies -- Bitcoin -- Coin Management Tools -- Nakamoto Consensus -- Conclusion and Open Challenges -- Bibliography -- Authors' Biographies. 330 $aThe new field of cryptographic currencies and consensus ledgers, commonly referred to as blockchains, is receiving increasing interest from various different communities. These communities are very diverse and amongst others include: technical enthusiasts, activist groups, researchers from various disciplines, start ups, large enterprises, public authorities, banks, financial regulators, business men, investors, and also criminals. The scientific community adapted relatively slowly to this emerging and fast-moving field of cryptographic currencies and consensus ledgers. This was one reason that, for quite a while, the only resources available have been the Bitcoin source code, blog and forum posts, mailing lists, and other online publications. Also the original Bitcoin paper which initiated the hype was published online without any prior peer review. Following the original publication spirit of the Bitcoin paper, a lot of innovation in this field has repeatedly come from the community itself in the form of online publications and online conversations instead of established peer-reviewed scientific publishing. On the one side, this spirit of fast free software development, combined with the business aspects of cryptographic currencies, as well as the interests of today's time-to-market focused industry, produced a flood of publications, whitepapers, and prototypes. On the other side, this has led to deficits in systematization and a gap between practice and the theoretical understanding of this new field. This book aims to further close this gap and presents a well-structured overview of this broad field from a technical viewpoint. The archetype for modern cryptographic currencies and consensus ledgers is Bitcoin and its underlying Nakamoto consensus. Therefore we describe the inner workings of this protocol in great detail and discuss its relations to other derived systems. 410 0$aSynthesis Lectures on Information Security, Privacy, and Trust,$x1945-9750 606 $aBlockchains (Databases) 606 $aData protection 606 $aData protection?Law and legislation 606 $aCryptography 606 $aData encryption (Computer science) 606 $aBlockchain 606 $aData and Information Security 606 $aPrivacy 606 $aCryptology 615 0$aBlockchains (Databases). 615 0$aData protection. 615 0$aData protection?Law and legislation. 615 0$aCryptography. 615 0$aData encryption (Computer science). 615 14$aBlockchain. 615 24$aData and Information Security. 615 24$aPrivacy. 615 24$aCryptology. 676 $a005.8 700 $aJudmayer$b Aljosha$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01720888 702 $aStifter$b Nicholas$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $aKrombholz$b Katharina$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $aWeippl$b Edgar$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822888603321 996 $aBlocks and Chains$94119961 997 $aUNINA