Mastering bitcoin : [unlocking digital cryptocurrencies] A broad introduction to bitcoin ideal for non tech users investors and business executives; technical foundations of bitcoin and cryptographic currencies for developers engineers and software and systems architects; details of the bitcoin decentralized network peer to peer architecture transaction lifecycle and security principles; offshoots of the bitcoin and blockchain inventions including alternative chains currencies and applications; user stories elegant analogies examples and code snippets illustrating key technical concepts Page [4] of cover