Alternative digital currencies, 17
A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, 4
Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miner, 48
Banking, finances services, and insurance (BFSI) sector, 64–65
Binance, 36
Bitcoin
advantages, 18
alternative digital currencies, 17
blockchain, 4
coinbase, 45
exchange services, 41
Hodl, 27
ASIC miner, 48
block reward, 47
cloud mining, 49
efficiency, 48
hardware and software, 50
hashing power, 48
miners, 47
technical experience, 49
objectives, 31
payment method, 42
political risk, 25
selling, 41
source code, 4
trading and investing
exchanger, 52
goods and services, 53
long-term traders, 51
merchants, 53
online investing, 54
price changes, 55
quick response codes, 53
variants, 4
BitTorrent, 23
audit and compliance costs, 65
blocks, 9
business intelligence and analytics, 66
conventional centralized databases, 9
data integrity, 9
energy, 66
ethereum, 63
genesis block, 9
identity management, 66
Internet-of-Things, 66
mining, 13
phenomenal changes, 64
public blockchain, 14
recordkeeping system, 64
scaling, 63
scammer altcoin, 20
structure, 10
third-party intermediarie, 9
trade process, 65
traditional applications, 66
transaction validation, 13
user-to-user (peer-to-peer) participation, 7
Block header, 12
Cardano, 35
cloud-based wallets, 43
Cloud mining, 49
Coin, 3
Coinbase, 45
Cryptocurrency
Binance, 36
bitcoin, 4
blockchain, 3
borderless currency, 1
Cardano, 35
coin, 3
conventional currency, 3
cryptography, 1
Dark Web, 5
Dash, 34
definitions and attributes, 2–3
digital money, 1
EOS, 34
Ethereum Classic, 38
Huobi Token, 37
importance, 4
IOTA, 39
legal status, 5
Litecoin, 34
Monero, 39
plastic money, 1
Project PAI, 37
Tether, 36
VeChain, 36
0x (ZRX), 37
Cryptography, 1
Dash, 34
Decentralized system, 3, 23–24
Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance (dBFT), 38
Digital money, 1
banks and credit card companies, 57
blockchain platforms, 57
conventional currencies, 58
open-source code, 57
rise in value, 59
smart contract, 62
Digital wallet, 42
EOS, 34
Ethereum Classic (ETC), 38
Ethereum virtual machines (EVMs), 19
Expedia, 53
Fiat currency, 67
Genesis block, 9
Hardware-based wallets, 43
Hash-based data structure, 10
Hash pointer, 12
Hodl, 27
Huobi Token (HT), 37
Identity management, 66
Initial coin offerings (ICOs), 19
Internet-of-Things (IoT), 66
IOTA, 39
Litecoin, 34
Mathematical formula, 12
Media hype, 25
Merkle tree, 10
Mobile wallets, 44
Monero, 39
Namecoin, 18
Napster, 23
NEM Smart Asset System, 35
NeoContract smart contract system, 39
NEO’s Universal Lightweight Virtual Machine (NeoVM), 38
Nodes, 11
Online wallets, 43
Paper-based wallet, 43
Plastic money, 1
Private key, 12
Project PAI, 37
Proof-of-work (PoW), 12
Public key, 12
Quick response (QR) codes, 53
Recordkeeping system, 64
Scammer altcoin, 20
SHA256 PoW function, 12
Shopify, 53
Smart contract, 62
Stellar cryptocurrency, 35
Tether, 36
Traditional banking system
benefits, 69
considerations, 68
decentralized peer-to-peer payment network, 68–69
fiat currency, 67
VeChain, 36
Virtual currency, 1
0x (ZRX), 37
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