Author Profile

Fredrik House is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Stanford University. He works on topics in compilers, programming models, and systems, with an emphasis on compiler techniques that make high-level languages portable. He has received the NSF CAREER Award, the MIT EECS Sprowls PhD Thesis Award in Computer Science, the Tau Beta Phi 2024 Teaching Honor Roll, the Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Awards, and several distinguished paper awards. His research centers on the development of fast, trustworthy machine learning and AI methods that balance the need for computational efficiency and the desire for statistical optimality with the inherent imperfections that come from real-world problems, large datasets, and complex models. His current applied work is focused on methods to enable more effective scientific discovery from high-throughput and multi-modal genomic data.

About The Book

Blockchain technology provides a decentralized, immutable, and cryptographic ledger for recording transactions, serving as the foundational infrastructure for various digital assets and applications. Key applications include cryptocurrencies, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), smart contracts, supply chain tracking, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), enabling secure, peer-to-peer transfers without trusted intermediaries. Cryptocurrency is a medium of exchange, created and stored electronically on the blockchain, using cryptographic techniques to verify the transfer of funds and an algorithm to control the creation of monetary units. Bitcoin is the best known example. As we enter the Industrial Revolution 4.0, demands for an increasing degree of trust and privacy protection continue to be voiced. The development of blockchain technology is very important because it can help frictionless and transparent financial transactions and improve the business experience, which in turn has far-reaching effects for economic, psychological, educational and organizational improvements in the way we work, teach, learn and care for ourselves and each other. Blockchain is an eccentric technology, but at the same time, the least understood and most disruptive technology of the day. This book covers the latest technologies of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology and their applications. This book discusses the blockchain and cryptocurrencies related issues and also explains how to provide the security differently through an algorithm, framework, approaches, techniques and mechanisms. A comprehensive understanding of what blockchain is and how it works, as well as insights into how it will affect the future of your organization and industry as a whole and how to integrate blockchain technology into your business strategy. In addition, the book explores the blockchain and its with other technologies like Internet of Things, big data and artificial intelligence, etc. The development of information technology in supply chains has shown that this digital revolution can be a source of performance for enterprises and governments. Among these technologies is blockchain. The application of blockchains in cryptocurrency reduces information security risks and eliminates several processing and transaction fees and allows countries with volatile currencies to have a more stable currency. Cryptoassets: Applications Blockchain Technology discusses about the application of blockchain technology in cryptocurrency. It further explains the ways in which these applications have affected the industry. Covering topics such as crypto mining attacks, data processing architecture, and purchase power, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for business leaders and executives, IT managers, logistics specialists, students and faculty of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians. Bitcoin and blockchain enable the ownership of virtual property without the need for a central authority. Additionally, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies make up an entirely new class of assets that have the potential for fundamental change in the current financial system. This book offers an introduction to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology that begins from the perspective of monetary economics. The book presents a nontechnical discussion of crypto-assets, enabling readers to understand how cryptocurrencies are a radical departure from existing monetary instruments, and provides an overview of blockchain technology and the Bitcoin system. It then takes up technical aspects of Bitcoin in more detail, covering such topics as the Bitcoin network, its communications protocol, the mathematics underpinning decentralized validation, transaction types, the data structure of blocks, the proof-of-work consensus mechanism, and game theory.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. BLOCKCHAIN: A NEW ERA OF TECHNOLOGY
2. BLOCKCHAIN: A PATH TO THE FUTURE
3. BLOCKCHAIN IN 5G
4. BLOCKCHAIN IN SOCIAL NETWORKING
5. INTEGRATING BLOCKCHAIN WITH CACC FOR TRUST AND PLATOON MANAGEMENT
6. IMPACT OF BLOCKCHAIN FOR INTERNET OF THINGS SECURITY
7. CHAOS CONTROL DYNAMICS OF CRYPTOVIROLOGY IN BLOCKCHAIN
8. BLOCKCHAIN AND BITCOIN SECURITY
9. APPLICATIONS WITH BLOCKCHAIN TECHNIQUE
10. IMPACT OF APPLICATION OF BIG DATA ON CRYPTOCURRENCY
11. A NEOTERIC SMART AND SUSTAINABLE FARMING ENVIRONMENT
12. THEORIES OF CRYPTOCURRENCY, BLOCKCHAIN AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS
13. BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY: A PARADIGM SHIFT IN INVESTMENT BANKING
14. TRADING ENERGY AS A DIGITAL ASSET: A BLOCKCHAIN-BASED ENERGY MARKET
15. FUNDAMENTALS OF BLOCKCHAIN
Bibliography
Index