Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians: Exploring the Foundations of Crypto Payments - Softcover

Slava Gomzin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1627340718 ISBN 13: 9781627340717

Publisher: Universal Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Slava Gomzin is information security enthusiast and full-stack technologist. He is the author of multiple publications on information security and technology including books "Hacking Point of Sale" (Wiley, 2014) and the just-published "Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians" (Universal Publishers, 2016). 
Slava is VP of Information Security and Technology at Pieces Technologies, an innovative start-up that deploys cutting edge technology to improve clinical and community health outcomes. Before Pieces Tech, he was Director of Information Security at Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI), a noted scientific research and development nonprofit corporation. Prior to joining PCCI, Slava was a Security and Payments Technologist at Hewlett-Packard, where he helped create products that are integrated into modern payment processing ecosystems using the latest security technologies. Before HP, he worked in various information security and software development positions at Retalix, a Division of NCR Retail. Slava currently holds CISSP and other security certifications. He blogs about information security and technology at gomzin.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Universal Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1627340718
• ISBN 13: 9781627340717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138