Overview
- Shows how crypto works, how to handle crypto, and how to get started with crypto trading and investment
- Provides complete step-by-step instructions on how to create and launch your own cryptocurrency
- Helps you analyze security, privacy, and usability of crypto as a mainstream payment system
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Understanding Crypto
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Using Crypto
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Creating Your Own Crypto
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About this book
Part I, Understanding Crypto, explains the technology and economic, security, and usability aspects of crypto. This is an introduction to the world of cryptography, blockchain tech, and other elements of crypto such as security, privacy, and a detailed review of payment processing.
Part II, Using Crypto, provides the practical knowledge you need to dive into the crypto business such as investment, trading, and even creating your own crypto project.
Part III, Creating Your Own Crypto, teaches you how to launch your own crypto project and create your own cryptocurrency.
What You Will Learn
- Know how cryptography, Bitcoin, and other cryptos work
- Understand how crypto becomes money, and how crypto exchanges work
- Use crypto as a payment method
- Buy your first crypto and know what exchange you should use
- Be aware of the most dangerous crypto attacks and what to do about security and privacy
- Maintain anonymity and privacy while dealing with crypto
- Know how Monero (the most popular privacy-centric cryptocurrency) works
- Create and run your own crypto project
- Create your own token, both regular (fungible) and NFT (non-fungible), from selecting the platform to economics and finances
Who This Book Is For
Crypto inventors, entrepreneurs, developers, investors, and advisors who are thinking about creating their own cryptocurrency; traders and investors, both professional and amateur, looking to enter the crypto markets; and software architects, developers, managers, consultants, executives, and crypto enthusiasts working for merchants, banks, fintech companies, and many other businesses that have started accepting crypto payments or dealing with other aspects of crypto
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crypto Basics
Book Subtitle: A Nontechnical Introduction to Creating Your Own Money for Investors and Inventors
Authors: Slava Gomzin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8321-9
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Slava Gomzin 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-8320-2Published: 27 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-8321-9Published: 26 September 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 310
Number of Illustrations: 104 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Systems and Data Security, Cryptology, Professional Computing, Financial Services, Financial Engineering, Capital Markets