Practical blockchains and cryptocurrencies : speed up your application development process and develop distributed applications with confidence /: speed up your application development process and develop distributed applications with confidence. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Karan Singh Garewal.
• Other Names: Garewal, Karan Singh
• Contents: Intro -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- About the Technical Reviewer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: A Short History of Money -- The Neolithic Age -- The Emergence of Banks and Banknotes -- Hawala -- The Roman Empire and the Origins of Inflation -- Gold and the Plunder of the New World -- The Gold Standard -- The Great Depression and Keynesian Economics -- The Petrodollar System -- Making Money in a Fractional Banking System -- Essential Monetary Economics -- Bitcoin Comes onto the Scene -- The Darknet -- Conclusion -- References Chapter 2: The Cryptocurrency Ecosystem -- Ethereum -- Bitcoin Cash -- Ripple -- Monero -- Litecoin -- Basic Attention Token -- Binance Coin -- TRON -- Tether -- The Gross Anatomy of Cryptocurrencies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Symmetric Encryption -- How Symmetric Encryption Works -- Design of Symmetric Encryption Algorithms -- Advanced Encryption Standard -- The Key Distribution Problem -- Pseudo-Random Number Generators -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Cryptographic Hash Functions -- An Introduction to Cryptographic Hashes -- Cryptographic Hash Functions The Fixed Length Output Property -- The Collision-Free Property -- The Irreversible Property -- The Property of Efficient Computation -- Proving That a File Has Been Tampered With -- The Secure Hash Algorithm 256 (SHA-256) -- A Python Example for SHA-256 -- RIPEMD-160 -- Message Authentication Codes -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The Alchemy of Public Key Cryptosystems -- The Key Distribution Problem Revisited -- Heuristics of Digital Signature Algorithms -- Public Key Infrastructure -- The RSA Algorithm -- Python Code Example -- Generating Globally Unique IDs -- Conclusion Chapter 6: The Constructor's Guide to Blockchains -- Why Write a Cryptocurrency in Python? -- The Computer Is the Blockchain -- Understanding Blockchains -- The Genesis Block -- The Blockchain Database -- Hash Pointers Are the Secret Ingredient -- Blockchain Immutability -- Making a Simple Blockchain -- The Blockchain Universe -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: The Helium Cryptocurrency Project -- Python Installation and the Virtual Environment -- Helium Configuration -- The Helium Version Number -- The Maximum Number of Helium Coins -- The Smallest Helium Currency Unit Helium Block Size -- The Maximum Transaction Inputs -- The Maximum Transaction Outputs -- The Locktime Interval -- The Coinbase Interval -- Nonce -- The Difficulty Number -- Retarget Interval -- The Mining Reward -- Reward Interval -- Helium Configuration Module -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: The Helium Blockchain -- Python Crypto Packages -- rcrypt Module Walkthrough -- A Pytest Primer -- rcrypt Unit Tests -- The Python Logger -- Helium Block Structure -- Helium Blockchain Walkthrough -- Helium Blockchain Unit Tests -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Cryptocurrency Transaction Processing
• Publisher Details: Berkeley, CA : Apress
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (489 pages)
• Subjects: 005.8/24; 005.133; Blockchains (Databases); Cryptocurrencies; Python (Computer program language); Application software -- Development; Python; Programming & scripting languages: general; Computers -- Programming Languages -- Python; Application software -- Development; Blockchains (Databases); Cryptocurrencies; Python (Computer program language); Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781484258934
• Related ISBNs: 9781484258927
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