Understanding Cryptocurrencies

Index

Altcoins, 4, 17, 19

Alternative digital currencies, 17

A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, 4

Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miner, 48

Banking, finances services, and insurance (BFSI) sector, 64–65

Binance, 36

Bitcoin

advantages, 18

altcoins, 17, 19

alternative digital currencies, 17

blockchain, 4

borderless currency, 24–25

coinbase, 45

decentralization, 18, 23–24

as economic bubbles, 20–21

exchange services, 41

Hodl, 27

mining, 4, 42

ASIC miner, 48

block reward, 47

cloud mining, 49

efficiency, 48

hardware and software, 50

hashing power, 48

home laptop, 49–50

miners, 47

technical experience, 49

objectives, 31

payment method, 42

political risk, 25

price rising, 25–26

selling, 41

source code, 4

taxation, 25–26

trading and ...