Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians:. Slava Gomzin

      Universal-Publishers

      Boca Raton

      Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians: Exploring the Foundations of Crypto Payments

      Copyright © 2016 Slava Gomzin

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher

      Universal-Publishers

      Boca Raton, Florida • USA

      2016

      ISBN-10: 1-62734-071-8

      ISBN-13: 978-1-62734-071-7

       www.universal-publishers.com

      Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Gomzin, Slava.

      Title: Bitcoin for nonmathematicians : exploring the foundations of crypto payments / Slava Gomzin.

      Description: Boca Raton, FL : Universal Publishers, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016930001 | ISBN 978-1-62734-071-7 (pbk.)

      Subjects: LCSH: Bitcoin. | Money. | Electronic commerce. | Mobile commerce. | Cryptography--Data processing. | Data encryption (Computer science) | BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy. | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce / General. | COMPUTERS / Electronic Commerce. | COMPUTERS / Security / Cryptography.

      Classification: LCC HF5548.32 .G659 2016 (print) | DDC: 332.4--dc23.

      To Svetlana

      and our daughters Alona, Aliza, and Arina

      About the Author

      Slava Gomzin is Director of Information Security at PCCI (Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation), a nonprofit research and development corporation delivering real time predictive analytics solutions. Slava is also the author of Hacking Point of Sale: Payment Application Secrets, Threats, and Solutions (Wiley, 2014), and has written many articles on payment security and technology. Prior to joining PCCI, Slava was a security and payments technologist at Hewlett-Packard, where he helped create products that are integrated into modern payment processing ecosystems. Before HP, he worked as a security architect, corporate product security officer, and R&D and application security manager at Retalix, a division of NCR Retail. As PCI ISA, he focused on security and PA-DSS, PCI DSS, and PCI P2PE compliance of POS systems, payment applications, and gateways. Slava currently holds CISSP, PCIP, ECSP, and Security+ certifications. He blogs about information security and technology at www.gomzin.com.

      Credits

      Technical Editor

      Ken Westin

      Copy Editor

      Adaobi Obi Tutton

      Foreword

      Doug McClellan

      Publisher & CEO

      Jeff Young

      Photo

      Svetlana Gomzin

      Production Editor

      Christie Mayer

      Cover Design

      Ivan Popov

      Acknowledgments

      Writing a book is not easy and cannot succeed without help from other people. First of all, I would like to thank Carol Long for convincing me to start writing another book right after the previous one was published. And thanks to Jeff Young for bringing this project to reality. Also, I would like to thank my ex-coworkers from HP, especially David White for his support and interest in such a controversial topic. Thanks to Ken Westin for his enthusiastic support and contribution. Thanks also go to VentureBeat editor, Morwenna Marshall, for the opportunity to share my ideas with a wider audience. Thanks to Adaobi Obi Tulton for another great editorial effort. Special thanks to Doug McClellan for his bright and sincere foreword. And finally, I want to thank my wife, Svetlana, for her continuous support and understanding.

      Contents at a Glance

       Foreword by Doug McClellan

       Introduction