the Solidity extension.
14 Book 4 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: Initiating a Truffle project.FIGURE 5-2: The Ganache Settings window.FIGURE 5-3: Visual Studio Code in myProject.FIGURE 5-4: The modified Truffle project configuration file.FIGURE 5-5: Ganache accounts list.FIGURE 5-6: Truffle deployment results.FIGURE 5-7: Ganache blocks after deploying smart contracts.FIGURE 5-8: Contents of a smart contract block.FIGURE 5-9: Smart contract instance information.
15 Book 4 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: Ethereum supply chain flow.FIGURE 6-2: Smart contract return values.FIGURE 6-3: Recommended gas prices.
16 Book 4 Chapter 7FIGURE 7-1: Supply chain starting smart contracts in VS Code.FIGURE 7-2: Editing SupplyChain.sol in VS Code.FIGURE 7-3: Defining an event in VS Code.FIGURE 7-4: Compiler output.
17 Book 4 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: The Ganache settings window.FIGURE 8-2: Modified Truffle project configuration file.FIGURE 8-3: Deployment output.FIGURE 8-4: Ganache accounts list.FIGURE 8-5: Results of getParticipantDetails().FIGURE 8-6: Truffle test results.
18 Book 4 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: Ganache settings window with Automine disabled.FIGURE 9-2: Ropsten network Ethereum faucet.FIGURE 9-3: Rinkeby network Ethereum faucet.FIGURE 9-4: Kovan network Ethereum faucet.FIGURE 9-5: MetaMask Ethereum network choices.FIGURE 9-6: MetaMask Copy Address to Clipboard option.FIGURE 9-7: Kovan account balance in MetaMask.FIGURE 9-8: The result of the Truffle deploy command.
19 Book 5 Chapter 1FIGURE 1-1: Dow Jones 70-year historical chart by year. FIGURE 1-2: Forex metaphor — the Australian dollar dancing against the U.S. dol...FIGURE 1-3: Bitcoin price between 2013 and January 2017. FIGURE 1-4: Bitcoin price between 2016 and October 2021.
20 Book 5 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: Bitcoin’s price action versus the U.S. dollar from 2017 to 2018. FIGURE 2-2: Demonstrating why patience is a profitable virtue.
21 Book 5 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: Five points of the Invest Diva Diamond Analysis.
22 Book 5 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: Binance exchange cryptocurrency pairing options. FIGURE 5-2: Correlation between the top 12 cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin as BTC ...FIGURE 5-3: Correlation between the top 17 cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin as BTC ...FIGURE 5-4: The top 17 cryptocurrencies are less correlated in the seven-day ti...
23 Book 5 Chapter 7FIGURE 7-1: OSTK share prices throughout 2018 show correlation to Bitcoin price...FIGURE 7-2: The stock price of Interactive Brokers (IBKR) dropped on December 1...FIGURE 7-3: BLOK, BLCN, and KOIN ETF comparison in 2018.
24 Book 5 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) price action compared to BTC/USD. FIGURE 9-2: Trading GBP/JPY between key support and resistance levels of 144.85...
25 Book 5 Chapter 10FIGURE 10-1: Line chart of BTC/USD over one day. FIGURE 10-2: Bullish and bearish bars. FIGURE 10-3: Candlesticks showing the general market movement in a chart. FIGURE 10-4: Daily candlestick chart of ETH/USD. FIGURE 10-5: Bitcoin’s key support level at around $30,000 for the first three ...FIGURE 10-6: Bitcoin’s key resistance levels in October 2021. FIGURE 10-7: How to draw uptrends and downtrends. FIGURE 10-8: Basic forms of channels. FIGURE 10-9: Examples of bullish reversal chart patterns. FIGURE 10-10: Examples of bearish reversal chart patterns.
26 Book 5 Chapter 11FIGURE 11-1: Cryptocurrency trading sessions based on international time zones....FIGURE 11-2: A simplified range-trading strategy. FIGURE 11-3: Buying at the pullback in an uptrend market, and taking profit at ...FIGURE 11-4: BTC/USD 30-minute chart on September 5, 2018. FIGURE 11-5: BTC/USD hourly chart on September 5, 2018. FIGURE 11-6: BTC/USD four-hour chart on September 5, 2018. FIGURE 11-7: BTC/USD four-hour chart strategy performance.
27 Book 5 Chapter 13FIGURE 13-1: An example of a cryptocurrency investment log. FIGURE 13-2: Using the Ichimoku-Fibonacci combo to identify bottoms. FIGURE 13-3: A double bottom chart pattern forming on an XRP/USD daily chart. FIGURE 13-4: A double bottom chart pattern confirms, and XRP reaches profit tar...
28 Book 5 Chapter 14FIGURE 14-1: Ichimoku Kinko Hyo components. FIGURE 14-2: Ichimoku Kinko Hyo applied to the XRP/BTC four-hour chart. FIGURE 14-3: Fibonacci retracement levels applied to an uptrend on the XLM/BTC ...FIGURE 14-4: Using Ichimoku and Fibonacci to create a bearish trading strategy....
29 Book 6 Chapter 1FIGURE 1-1: The block subsidy and transaction fees being paid to a miner, from ...
30 Book 6 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: The statistics page at Slush Pool, showing information from the cur...FIGURE 3-2: A historical graph of each pool’s hash rate contributions to the Bi...FIGURE 3-3: Genesis Mining sells hash rate packages. Dash starts at 5,000 MH/s ...
31 Book 6 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: The WhatToMine.com profitability comparison site.FIGURE 4-2: CoinWarz.com, another very popular profitability comparison site.FIGURE 4-3: The top of the CoinWarz.com page, where you enter your hash rate in...FIGURE 4-4: Crypto-Coinz.net actually provides hashing power information for so...FIGURE 4-5: A cryptocurrency details page on WhatToMine.com.FIGURE 4-6: The Bitcoin calculator at CryptoCompare.com.FIGURE 4-7: Bitcoin’s GitHub page.FIGURE 4-8: The Dogecoin Wikipedia page.FIGURE 4-9: BitInfoCharts.com’s hash-rate comparison page.FIGURE 4-10: The spectrum of decentralization.FIGURE 4-11: Chart from GitHub depicting the coin issuance schedule and inflati...FIGURE 4-12: Coinmetrics.io compares active-address quantities between differen...
32 Book 6 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: A graph showing the highest hash-rate SHA-256 mining equipment bein...FIGURE 5-2: Power consumption for a range of SHA-256 ASICs for Bitcoin hashing.FIGURE 5-3: You can find your electricity cost from your utility bill.FIGURE 5-4: SHA-256 Bitcoin network ASIC mining hardware, ranked by efficiency ...FIGURE 5-5: X11 DASH ASIC mining hardware, ranked by efficiency in terms of jou...FIGURE 5-6: Scrypt Litecoin network ASIC mining hardware, ranked by efficiency ...FIGURE 5-7: Equihash Zcash network ASIC mining hardware, ranked by efficiency i...FIGURE 5-8: Ethash Ethereum network ASIC mining hardware, ranked by efficiency ...FIGURE 5-9: A PDU manufactured by CyberPower.FIGURE 5-10: A PSU sold by Bitmain, a major ASIC manufacturer, for its line of ...
33 Book 6 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: A typical ASIC size and shape; the Antminer S9k.FIGURE 6-2: A Gray Matter Industries shelf designed to hold, and rack mount, th...FIGURE 6-3: A Bitmain power supply, designed for use with the company’s Antmine...FIGURE 6-4: The Antminer Z9 ASIC documentation showing the power connections.FIGURE 6-5: A typical PDU.FIGURE 6-6: Bitmain Antminer’s IP Report button on the ASIC, which reports the ...FIGURE 6-7: The Bitmain ASIC configuration settings screen where you can set th...FIGURE 6-8: A preconfigured 8-GPU mining rig.FIGURE 6-9: The MiningSky V1 GPU Mining Rig — everything you need but the GPU c...FIGURE 6-10: The Rosewill 6U Dual PSU Aluminum Mining Case.FIGURE 6-11: An open-air GPU mining frame, shown after all the equipment has be...FIGURE 6-12: The ASUS B250 Mining Expert motherboard, which can handle up to 19...FIGURE 6-13: An AMD CPU that would be suitable to run a GPU mining rig. This CP...FIGURE 6-14: A CPU heat sink with built-in fan (from Cooler Master). The pad sh...FIGURE 6-15: GPU cards are popular among certain miners.FIGURE 6-16: Average price of popular GPUs for cryptocurrency mining in 2019.FIGURE 6-17: A riser card designed to connect a single GPU card to a motherboar...FIGURE 6-18: To ASIC mine with NiceHash, pick an algorithm and server location,...
34 Book 6 Chapter 7FIGURE 7-1: Purchase cost in U.S. dollars, in 2019, of some of the latest and m...FIGURE 7-2: Purchase cost of SHA-256 mining ASICs, in U.S. dollars per hash rat...FIGURE 7-3: A snapshot of an Amazon page showing ratings of various ASIC mining...FIGURE 7-4: Hash rates for a range of common GPU cards in 2019, mining Ether us...FIGURE 7-5: A comparison of efficiency (in J/MH/s) of various GPUs mining the E...FIGURE 7-6: Estimated power consumption of a variety of popular GPUs on the mar...FIGURE 7-7: A cryptocurrency calculator at WhatToMine.com.FIGURE 7-8: An example of the Bitcoin network rolling hash rate percentage calc...
35 Book 6 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: EIA data on average winter heating costs from propane, heating oil,...FIGURE 8-2: Average electricity cost per kWh by state compiled from EIA data pr...FIGURE 8-3: A BitInfoCharts.com chart showing how miners switched their hash ra...FIGURE 8-4: A CoinMarketCap.com chart showing Zcash’s wild pricing ride the fir...FIGURE 8-5: A logarithmic chart showing the Bitcoin mining profitability of 1 T...FIGURE 8-6: The linear chart showing the Bitcoin mining profitability of 1 TH/s...
36 Book 6 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: Coinbase, a large exchange, lets you spend your cryptocurrency