Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

Satya Prakash Yadav, Subiya Zaidi

ISBN: 9789390455102

198 pages

Description

Blockchain is a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to change, hack, or cheat the system and this is done using Cryptography. A Cryptocurrency is a digital money that operates on the Blockchain technology. This book is intended to provide a detailed analysis of the effect of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency in the current market. It is designed with the focus to facilitate the students in understanding the working behind the raging technology. Blockchain and Cryptocurrency are vastly discussed nowadays in all research domains to bring decentralization. This book gives easy access to the complex terminologies revolving around the technology.

About the Author

Satya Prakash Yadav is Assistant Professor of the Information Technology Department, ABES Institute of Technology (ABESIT), Ghaziabad (India). A seasoned academician having more than 12 years of experience, he has published two books (Programming in C, and Programming in C++) under I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. He has undergone industrial training programs during which he was involved in live projects with companies in the areas of SAP, Railway Traffic Management Systems, and Visual Vehicles Counter and Classification (used in the Metro rail network design).

Subiya Zaidi is a research scholar. She has presented various research papers in IEEE conferences which have been published in the IEEE Xplore. Her areas of interest range from biometric analysis using MATLAB and image processing. She has been a part of the academic curriculum of AKTU and has worked as an Asst. Professor in various colleges.

Table of Contents

Book Review

Basics
Cryptography
Blockchain
Distributed Consensus
Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency Regulation
Blockchain Applications
Index