Bitcoin at Princeton

In my previous post, Bitcoin in the News : 2016-02, there was another news item worth special mention: Crypto connoisseurs - Curl up with Princeton's 300-page ode to Bitcoin (theregister.co.uk).

It points to princeton_bitcoin_book.pdf, 'Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies' by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, Steven Goldfeder, with a preface by Jeremy Clark, ('Draft — Feb 9, 2016'). Since the draft doesn't include a table of contents, I constructed one myself (with page numbers):-

003 Preface — The Long Road to Bitcoin
023 Chapter 1: Introduction to Cryptography & Cryptocurrencies
051 Chapter 2: How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization
075 Chapter 3: Mechanics of Bitcoin
101 Chapter 4: How to Store and Use Bitcoins
131 Chapter 5: Bitcoin Mining
165 Chapter 6: Bitcoin and Anonymity
194 Chapter 7: Community, Politics, and Regulation
216 Chapter 8: Alternative Mining Puzzles
237 Chapter 9: Bitcoin as a Platform
265 Chapter 10: Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
293 Chapter 11: Decentralized Institutions: The Future of Bitcoin?
307 Conclusion to the book
308 About the authors

The preface includes the following chart.

Notable electronic payment systems and proposals

A second link in The Register article worth noting is 'Narayanan's free online Bitcoin course': Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies (coursera.org).