Would you like to understand how RSA and Elliptic Curves (two most famous public key/ asymmetric encryption algorithms) work? Would you like to understand the distinctive properties and core design principles of Bitcoin?
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Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians: Exploring the Foundations of Crypto Payments

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​Published: Universal Publishers,
ISBN-10: 1627340718
ISBN-13: 9781627340717
March 2016, 
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Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians: 

Exploring the Foundations of Crypto Payments

A book by Slava Gomzin

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​It’s thoughtless to start using something you don’t trust. It’s difficult to start trusting something you don’t understand. Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians contains answers to the following questions: how bitcoin is different from other payment systems, and why we can trust cryptocurrencies. The book compares bitcoin with its predecessors and competitors, and demonstrates the benefits of cryptocurrency over any other existing methods of payments. Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians starts from overview of the evolution of payment systems from gold and paper money to payment cards to cryptocurrencies, and ends up with explaining the fundamentals of security and privacy of crypto payments by explaining the details of cryptography behind bitcoin in layman’s terms. 

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Contents at a Glance

• ​Foreword by Doug McClellan
• Introduction    
• Part I    From Coins to Crypto
• Chapter 1    Traditional Money
• Chapter 2    Digital Gold
• Chapter 3    Centralized Digital Payments
• Chapter 4    Cryptocurrencies
• Part II    Bitcoin Cryptography
• Chapter 5    Types of Encryption
• Chapter 6    RSA Step by Step
• Chapter 7    How Elliptic Curves Work
• Bonus Chapter    Experimenting with the Code
• References
• Index    
  
  

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