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Learn Bitcoin and Blockchain

By : Kirankalyan Kulkarni
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Learn Bitcoin and Blockchain

By: Kirankalyan Kulkarni

Overview of this book

Blockchain is a distributed database that enables permanent, transparent, and secure storage of data. Blockchain technology uses cryptography to keep data secure. Learn Bitcoin and Blockchain is the perfect entry point to the world of decentralized databases. This book will take you on a journey through the blockchain database, followed by advanced implementations of the blockchain concept. You will learn about Bitcoin basics and their technical operations. As you make your way through the book, you will gain insight into this leading technology and its implementation in the real world. You will also cover the technical foundation of blockchain and understand the fundamentals of cryptography and how they keep data secure. In the concluding chapters, you’ll get to grips with the mechanisms behind cryptocurrencies. By the end of this book, you will have learned about decentralized digital money, advanced blockchain concepts, and Bitcoin and blockchain security.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)

Hardware wallets

Hardware wallets are a type of crypto wallet that reserves the private keys of users in a secured hardware device. They are supposed to be the most heavily protected and safe sorts of wallet. Now, we will look at some of the benefits that they have to offer:

  • The first benefit is that the private keys of the user are stored in an area that is safe and has a built-in microcontroller on the device. Therefore, these keys cannot be transferred off the device in plain text format, which is tightly secured and coupled with the microcontroller.
  • They are immune to computer viruses that steal from software wallets. This key feature safeguards keys from the outside world because this hardware is not that easy to hack or crack.
  • One more benefit is that the keys can then be used securely, which makes it convenient for the user's point of view. This is a relatively easy...