• M.Samuel John
• K.Parish Venkata Kumar
• M.Joshua

Now a days, the increasing popularity of cryptocurrency for sending remittances is clearly seen through newspapers, public Internet and other electronic and printmedia. Day by day, more number of people is getting adapted to usecryptocurrencyfor remittance and eventually it became part of our lives.Cryptocurrency is an encrypted, peer-to-peer,virtual cash system for exchanging money.Cryptocurrency uses cryptography for three purposes:to secure the transactions, to verify the transactions and to control the creation of new units. This paper provides a comprehensive description on the role of public key cryptography incryptocurrencies.

Cryptocurrency, cryptography, bitcoin, hash code, digital signatures, public-key cryptography

"The Role of Cryptography in the implementation of Cryptocurrencies", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.212-215, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906H02.pdf

"The Role of Cryptography in the implementation of Cryptocurrencies", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp212-215, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906H02.pdf