Cryptocurrency
A cryptocurrency is a digital asset whose ownership and transfers are secured and recorded using cryptographic mechanisms, typically through a distributed ledger.
Investing for Programmers
A cryptocurrency is a digitally native asset secured by cryptographic techniques and typically recorded on a distributed ledger.
- How it is used
- Frames cryptocurrency as a peer-to-peer payment technology, volatile investment asset, and source of possible staking income.
- How deep it goes
- Explains blockchain, transactions, private-key ownership, staking, custody, and monitoring implementation without developing protocol internals.
- Examples
- Uses Bitcoin scarcity, Binance staking positions, CoinMarketCap prices, offline assets, DataFrames, and a crypto worksheet.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure a cryptocurrency monitor using Binance, CoinMarketCap, Python, pandas, and spreadsheet price feeds.
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The Joy of JavaScript
A digital currency that uses cryptographic techniques to secure transactions and control the creation of new units.
- How it is used
- Uses cryptocurrency as a realistic domain for applying modern JavaScript techniques to a small blockchain protocol.
- How deep it goes
- Explains transactions, immutability, hashing, mining, and proof of work, while stopping short of production-ready implementation.
- Examples
- Demonstrates Luke’s coffee payment from a digital wallet through pending validation and block inclusion.
- What you can do after
- Build a naive blockchain protocol from scratch using modern JavaScript techniques.
Related concepts
- Bitcoinincludes · Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency and cryptocurrency system that records and verifies transactions on a peer-to-peer network using a distributed ledger.
- blockchainuses · A blockchain is a distributed ledger that records data in an ordered sequence of cryptographically linked, tamper-evident blocks.
- throughputmeasured by · The amount of work, data, or output a system processes or completes per unit of time.
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