Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A Short History of Money.- Chapter 2: The Cryptocurrency Ecosystem.- Chapter 3: Symmetric Encryption.- Chapter 4: Cryptographic Hash Functions.- Chapter 5: The Alchemy of Public Key Cryptosystems.- Chapter 6: The Constructor's Guide to Blockchains.- Chapter 7: The Helium Cryptocurrency Project.- Chapter 8: The Helium Blockchain.- Chapter 9: Cryptocurrency Transaction Processing.- Chapter 10: Merkle Trees.- Chapter 11: Helium Transaction Processing.- Chapter 12: The Chainstate.- Chapter 13: Mining Cryptocurrency.- Chapter 14: Helium Mining.- Chapter 15: The Helium Network.- Chapter 16: Blockchain Maintenance.- Chapter 17: Helium Wallet Construction.- Chapter 18: The Helium Testnet.- Appendix 1: Setting Up a Python Virtual Environment.- Appendix 2: Installing LevelDB for Helium.- Appendix 3: Unit Tests with Pytest.- Appendix 4: Making Concurrent Python Programs.- Appendix 5: Object Persistence with Pickle.- Appendix 6: Helium Remote Procedure Calls.- Appendix 7: Simulated Blockchain Automation.- Appendix 8: Helium Data Structures.- Appendix 9: Helium Database Maintenance.- Appendix 10: Helium Source Code Listing.-

About the Author

Karan Singh Garewal is an attorney at law in Canada. He has over 20 years of software development experience in C, C++, Go, JavaScript, Node, Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, Vue, PostgresSQL, MySQL, and Cassandra. His current interests are in financial engineering and real-time algorithmic trading systems. He is developing a neural network cryptocurrency trading platform on a C++, Go, Cassandra, and Vue stack.