Principles of Blockchain Systems
Fernández Anta, Antonio / Potop-Butucaru, Maria / Herlihy, Maurice / Georgiou, Chryssis
This book is the first to present the state of the art and provide technical focus on the latest advances in the foundations of blockchain systems. It is a collaborative work between specialists in cryptography, distributed systems, formal languages, and economics, and addresses hot topics in blockchains from a theoretical perspective: cryptographic primitives, consensus, formalization of blockchain properties, game theory applied to blockchai...