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Discover Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has the finance world buzzing

Bitcoin is arguably one of the biggest developments in finance since the advent of fiat currency. With Understanding Bitcoin, expert author Pedro Franco provides finance professionals with a complete technical guide and resource to the cryptography, engineering and economic development of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This comprehensive, yet accessible work fully explores the supporting economic realities and technological advances of Bitcoin, and presents positive and negative arguments from various economic schools regarding its continued viability.

This authoritative text provides a step-by-step description of how Bitcoin works, starting with public key cryptography and moving on to explain transaction processing, the blockchain and mining technologies. This vital resource reviews Bitcoin from the broader perspective of digital currencies and explores historical attempts at cryptographic currencies. Bitcoin is, after all, not just a digital currency; its a modern approach to the secure transfer of value using cryptography. This book is a detailed guide to what it is, how it works, and how it just may jumpstart a change in the way digital value changes hands.

  • Understand how Bitcoin works, and the technology behind it
  • Delve into the economics of Bitcoin, and its impact on the financial industry
  • Discover alt-coins and other available cryptocurrencies
  • Explore the ideas behind Bitcoin 2.0 technologies
  • Learn transaction protocols, micropayment channels, atomic cross-chain trading, and more

Bitcoin challenges the basic assumption under which the current financial system rests: that currencies are issued by central governments, and their supply is managed by central banks. To fully understand this revolutionary technology, Understanding Bitcoin is a uniquely complete, reader-friendly guide.

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Understanding Bitcoin
Cryptography, engineering, and economics

PEDRO FRANCO

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This edition first published 2015
2015 Pedro Franco

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Dedicated to Alvaro, Rafael, Luis, and Nayra

About the Author

Pedro Franco was born in Astorga, Leon (Spain). He holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering from ICAI, a BSc in Economics, and an MBA from INSEAD. Pedro has been a consultant with McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group and a researcher with IIT prior to gaining more than 10 years of experience in financial markets holding Quant and Trading positions in Credit, Counterparty Risk, Inflation, and Interest Rates. He has created various mathematical libraries for financial derivatives, and managed teams of software developers.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks to Juan Ramirez for helping me gather the courage to write this book.

Thanks to Jon Beracoechea, Manuel Castro, and Robert Smith for exhaustively reviewing an early version of the book and providing many excellent suggestions. Thanks also to Eli Ben-Sasson, Alejandro and Alvaro Franco, Jeff Lim, Jan Pelzl, Stefan Thomas, Evan Schwartz, Rodrigo Serrano, Alena Vranova, and Bob Way for reviewing parts of the book and providing insightful comments.

Finally, thanks to my family for their patience and support; without them this book could not have been written.

Foreword

I have been hoping for some time for a good book covering the technology and ideas behind Bitcoin to be written.

There is certainly a wealth of information about cryptocurrencies, but the field advances rapidly and it is sometimes difficult for the non-initiated to understand the fundamentals and catch up with new developments. This book takes readers to a thorough understanding of the current state-of-the-art cryptocurrencies technology, as well as its future economic and technological implications, without assuming any previous knowledge of the many fields than constitute Bitcoin. This is an enabling book that empowers the reader to participate in and contribute to this great adventure.

The book clearly exposes many concepts previously mainly known to insiders of the cryptocurrencies world. It covers a wide range of topics, from the economics or the basic technology (such as elliptic curve cryptography, Merkle trees or the blockchain) to advanced cryptographic concepts (such as non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs), and explores many applications based on these ideas (such as multi-signature wallets or fully anonymous payment systems). All this is accomplished in a book that is very approachable and comprehensible.

Readers new to Bitcoin will surely be surprised by the ingenuity of the technology and the broad range of applications it enables. Those familiar with Bitcoin will find many sections, such as the sections on economics or advanced applications of cryptocurrencies, informative and thought provoking.

I believe Pedros book will be well received in the business and financial community as well as by the general public, spreading the knowledge about Bitcoin and contributing to this technology crossing the chasm to the early majority.

Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin Core Developer at BitPay, Inc.

Prologue
What is Bitcoin?
Its a digital currency.
Yeah, I get that, but who is behind Bitcoin?
Nobody.
What do you mean by nobody? Somebody must be controlling it!
Nobody is controlling it, it is an algorithm.
What? You mean like Terminator? So you say the world is going to be taken over by machines?
Well, not the world, but maybe some businesses.
Right... (rolling her eyes) But who controls the algorithm? Some mad scientist?
Its an open source project.
An open what?
Yes, free code. You can download it from the internet and do with it whatever you want.
So you dont have to pay for the program"?
Well, its free as in freedom, not free as in beer.
What does beer have to do with it?
The code is not only free in the sense that you can use the program free of charge. It is also free in the sense that you can take the code, modify it, and release a program of your own with it.
Wait a second! If I can do that then I can make my own bitcoins. What value does a bitcoin have then?
No, you cannot mint your own bitcoins. What you can do is invent your own currency. And then you have to somehow make it gain acceptance...
Oh, but this surely is the end of Bitcoin. If you can make as many currencies as you want, none of them would have any value.
Currencies have value because of social convention. Bitcoin has value because people are willing to give value to it.
I dont think you are right. Euros or dollars have value, everybody knows that.
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