Inside Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Cryptocurrencies (Hardcover)

本書從底層原理到應用程式如何在其基礎上生存和發展，全面介紹了區塊鏈技術。在介紹了區塊鏈的基礎知識後，本書轉向加密貨幣的探討。它詳細研究了比特幣，並圍繞著六種其他主要貨幣進行了全面的討論。接著，本書將技術與金融相結合，重點關注基於區塊鏈的應用程式（包括加密貨幣）如何努力挑戰主流行業，以鞏固其永久地位。它討論了區塊鏈作為銀行技術的基礎、加密貨幣的挖礦和交易、加密貨幣作為投資工具、加密貨幣的監管和市場等議題。

Dr. Niaz Chowdhury is a postdoctoral researcher working with blockchain technology in the European Union funded project QualiChain. His research experience spans over a decade across three British and Irish nations in England, Scotland and Ireland. He presently holds a Research Associate position in the Open Blockchain group of Knowledge Media Institute, a small but renowned and well-regarded research lab within the Open University in England. He also completed two more postdocs before joining this position, one in the Department of Computing and Communication in the same university working for the Big Data and Smart City project MK: Smart while another at his current lab in the Data Science group. Dr. Chowdhury obtained his PhD from the School of Computing Science of the University of Glasgow in Scotland, as a recipient of the prestigious Scottish ORS Scholarship. He was also a research scholar at the School of Computer Science in Trinity College Dublin where he received Government of Ireland IRCSET Embark Initiative Scholarship. His earlier academic achievements include a bachelor and a master degree with gold medal distinction in Computer Science and Engineering from East West University, Bangladesh. Dr. Chowdhury published numerous journal articles, conference papers and book chapters on the blockchain technology, the Internet of Things, wireless networks and data science.　

Dr. Niaz Chowdhury是一位博士後研究員，目前在歐盟資助的QualiChain項目中從事區塊鏈技術的研究。他的研究經驗超過十年，涵蓋了英格蘭、蘇格蘭和愛爾蘭這三個不同的英國和愛爾蘭地區。他目前在英國Open University的知識媒體研究所的開放區塊鏈小組擔任研究助理職位，該研究所是一個小型但聲譽卓著的研究實驗室。在加入這個職位之前，他還完成了兩個博士後研究，一個是在同一所大學的計算和通信系工作於大數據和智慧城市項目MK: Smart，另一個是在他目前所在的實驗室的數據科學小組。Chowdhury博士在蘇格蘭格拉斯哥大學計算機科學學院獲得了博士學位，並獲得了享有盛譽的蘇格蘭ORS獎學金。他還曾是都柏林三一學院計算機科學學院的研究學者，並獲得了愛爾蘭政府IRCSET Embark Initiative獎學金。他早期的學術成就包括在孟加拉國東西大學獲得計算機科學和工程學的學士和碩士學位，並獲得金牌榮譽。Chowdhury博士在區塊鏈技術、物聯網、無線網絡和數據科學等領域發表了眾多期刊文章、會議論文和專書章節。