Still searching for Satoshi : unveiling the blockchain revolution / Anders Lisdorf.
Lisdorf, Anders.
2023
QA76.9.B56
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Title
Still searching for Satoshi : unveiling the blockchain revolution / Anders Lisdorf.
Author
Lisdorf, Anders.
ISBN
9781484296394 (electronic bk.)
1484296397 (electronic bk.)
1484296389
9781484296387
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9639-4
Publication Details
[United States] : Apress, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-1-4842-9639-4 doi
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QA76.9.B56
Dewey Decimal Classification
005.74
Summary
We are at the threshold of a new area of the internet that promises to transform the way we engage financially and take the power of data and privacy back from big corporations and give it to the individual through decentralization. This is sometimes called Web 3.0. While Web 1.0 transformed information sharing and commerce and brought us giants like Google and Amazon and Web 2.0 unlocked the social potential of the internet and created Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat, exactly what will come of Web 3.0 remains to be seen. It is indisputable that the seed of Web 3.0 is the technological, social, and economic innovations that came together in Bitcoin and the blockchain technology it created. But where the first web iterations were relatively straightforward to understand, the inner workings of Web 3.0 remain more opaque and shrouded in mystique. Current voices on Bitcoin and the blockchain revolution fall squarely into one of two camps; either technological experts who are all also invariably personally invested in the success of Bitcoin and the blockchain or critics who are typically deeply invested in the status quo and the failure of Bitcoin and blockchain. It seems like there is a need for a middle ground to provide the public with a more unbiased view of this important technology. This book therefore aims to unveil some of the mystique and show how to unlock the potential of the blockchain revolution in a manner that does not dismiss out of hand even radical and outlandish ideas nor jumps on the bandwagon of hailing Bitcoin and the blockchain as the answer to all problems. What youll learn The nature of blockchain technology, how it works and what it does. The history of the technological developments that lead to the blockchain. A historical analysis of who the likely creator of Bitcoin is. How bitcoin and cryptocurrencies fit in the history of human exchange. The nature and history of electronic money. How blockchain technology solves problems in a novel way and what it cannot be used for. What web 3.0 could be. Who This Book Is For This book is for a general non-technical audience trying to understand the difficult and complex nature of blockchain and cryptocurrencies and the contours of the Web 3.0 revolution.
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Intro
Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Virtual Currency
What Is a Virtual Currency?
The Dream of a Virtual Currency
Anonymous Digital Cash Awakens
The Liberation of the Dollar
Digital Gold Currencies
Ecommerce Rises
From Digital Postage to Money
Decentralizing the Bank
The Three Strains of Virtual Currencies
Chapter 2: Cryptography
Public Key Encryption
Diffie-Hellman-Merkle
The RSA Paper
A British Twist
Bringing Public Key Cryptography to the Masses
Hashing

Digital Signature
Proof of Work
Combating Junk Mail
Applying Proof of Work
Digital Postage
Adding Cost to Free Information
How Crypto Became Currency
Chapter 3: Public Record
The Earliest Writing and Single-Entry Bookkeeping
The Accounting Revolution and Double-Entry Bookkeeping
Information Technology and Triple-Entry Bookkeeping
Decentralizing the Record
A Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Public Record
Chapter 4: Bitcoin
A Virtual Currency
Encrypting for Privacy
Shared Public Ledger
Peer-to-Peer Network
Proof of Work
What Is Bitcoin?

Chapter 5: Searching for Satoshi
Whodunnit?
The Search Commences
"The Bitcoin Crypto-Currency Mystery Reopened"
The Search Continues
The Newsweek Story
Nakamoto's Neighbor
A New Suspect Appears
Evidence Builds
The Plot Thickens
Full Circle
Chapter 6: Profiling Satoshi
The Historical Basis for Satoshi
Primary and Secondary Sources
Relic and Narrative
Tendency of the Source
Closeness to the Event
Independent Confirmation
Parsimony
Ad Fontes: What Can the Sources Tell Us?
The Bitcoin Whitepaper
Correspondence

Technical Forensic Evidence
Interviews
The Sources and Satoshi
Building a Profile of Satoshi
Assumptions
The Assumption of Unity
The Assumption of Singularity
The Assumption of Normalcy
Profiling Nakamoto
Gender
Age
Geography
Nationality
Education and Work
Values
Summary of Satoshi's Profile
Chapter 7: The Usual Suspects?
Redrawing the List of Suspects
A Closer Look at Adam Back
The Absence of Back from Bitcoin
Back-Satoshi Interactions
Other Evidence
But Then Again...
Concluding the Search for Satoshi
Chapter 8: Money

The Variety of Money
The Rossel Islanders
Cigarettes
Points
The Many Facets of Money
What Is Money?
Functions of Money
Medium of Exchange
Unit of Account
Store of Value
History of Money and Exchange
Exchange
Barter
Primitive Money
Banking
Coins
The Invention of Money
Dynamics of Money
Key Factors of Money
Standard
Minting
Legal Tender
Supply and Demand
How Money Becomes Valuable
Key Dynamics of Money
Bitcoin and Money
Bitcoin as Money
Scarcity and Store of Value
Pump and Dump

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