Introduction to Digital Currency
1
About
2
What is Digital Currency?
2.1
Let’s Get the terms Right
2.2
Advancing a clear definition
2.2.1
Taxonomy of Digital Currency
2.2.2
Digital currency before Bitcoin
3
How does Cryptocurrency Function?
3.0.1
Achieving ‘distributed consensus’
3.0.2
Bitcoin’s Blockchain
3.0.3
Digital Signatures
3.0.4
Merkle Trees
3.0.5
Proof-of-Work concept
3.0.6
Alternative mechanisms to achieve distributed consensus: Proof-of-stake
3.0.7
Proof-of-Stake versus Proof-of-Work Summarised
3.0.8
A Bitcoin transaction
4
How do I obtain Cryptocurrency?
4.1
Exchanges
4.2
Bitcoin ATMs
4.3
Bitcoin Meetups
4.4
Mining for Bitcoin
5
Alternative Cryptocurrencies
5.1
Altcoins from 2008 - 2012
5.2
Which Altcoin Currently Predominate?
5.2.1
Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin
5.2.2
Ripple and Stellar
5.2.3
‘Second Generation’ Cryptocurrencies
6
Second Generation Cryptocurrencies
6.1
What are Smart Contracts
6.2
What are Decentralised Applications
6.3
DApp development: the current picture
6.3.1
How many tokens are associated with Ethereum?
6.3.2
Analysis of Top Ten Ethereum Tokens
7
Upcoming Trends: Wealth accumulation
7.1
Premining
7.2
Intial Coin Offerings
7.3
Proof-of-Stake: The New Dividend?
7.4
Airdrops
8
Upcoming Trends: Enchanced Privacy
8.1
‘Private’ Cryptocurrencies
8.2
Atomic Swapping and TOR Nodes
8.3
Emergence of Darkpools
8.4
Smart contracts for peer-to-peer trading
8.5
Intial Coin Offerings to Launder?
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Introduction to Digital Currency
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