Lecture 10 — Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem

Описание: Tenth lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course.

For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/

In this lecture:
Short History of Altcoins
Interaction between Bitcoin and Altcoins
Lifecycle of an Altcoin
Bitcoin-Backed Altcoins, “Side Chains”