Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

Distributed Trust — The Computer Science, Economics, and Policy of Decentralized Systems

Author: DataField.Dev

Edition: First Edition, 2026

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

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Publisher: DataField.Dev Open Textbook Project

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How this book was made: Drafted with AI assistance and published by DataField.Dev. Corrections are welcome through datafield.dev.

This textbook is free. It was not sponsored by any exchange, blockchain project, venture fund, or token issuer, and it contains no exchange referral links, token promotions, or crypto affiliate codes. (Book titles on the further-reading and bibliography pages of the web edition link to Amazon through DataField.Dev's Amazon Associates account, as disclosed on those pages, and the website shows Google ads placed automatically rather than chosen by DataField.Dev.) Its only agenda is understanding.