Blockchain
Book - 2019
"Blockchain is the techno-magic that enables cryptocurrencies and impacts the worlds of finance, insurance, supply chain management, and others. But you don't need to be a programmer or financial wizard to understand blockchain; you just need this book! It explains blockchain basics, smart contracts, and cryptocurrencies, with real-world examples showing how blockchains functions and where they ad value. Learn how to interact with a blockchain, tour key blockchains, see how they disrupt huge industries, and much more." -- Back cover.
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- Published
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Second edition
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- xii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781119555018
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1. Getting Started with Blockchain
- Chapter 1. Introducing Blockchain
- Beginning at the Beginning: What Blockchains Are
- What blockchains do
- Why blockchains matter
- The Structure of Blockchains
- Blockchain Applications
- The Blockchain Life Cycle
- Consensus: The Driving Force of Blockchains
- Blockchains in Use
- Current blockchain uses
- Future blockchain applications
- Chapter 2. Picking a Blockchain
- Where Blockchains Add Substance
- Determining your needs
- Defining your goal
- Choosing a Solution
- Drawing a blockchain decision tree
- Making a plan
- Chapter 3. Getting Your Hands on Blockchain
- Diving into Blockchain Technology
- Creating a secure environment
- Buying your first Bitcoin
- Securing and Exchanging Your Cryptocurrency
- Downloading Jaxx
- Securing your Jaxx wallet
- Transferring Bitcoin to Jaxx
- Trading Bitcoin for Ether
- Loading up your MetaMask account
- Setting up a CryptoKitties account
- Building a Private Blockchain with Docker and Ethereum
- Preparing your computer
- Building your blockchain
- Part 2. Developing Your Knowledge
- Chapter 4. Beholding the Bitcoin Blockchain
- Getting a Brief History of the Bitcoin Blockchain
- The New Bitcoin: Bitcoin Cash
- Debunking Some Common Bitcoin Misconceptions
- Bitcoin: The New Wild West
- Fake sites
- No, you first!
- Get-rich-quick schemes
- Mining for Bitcoins
- Making Your First Paper Wallet
- Chapter 5. Encountering the Ethereum Blockchain
- Exploring the Brief History of Ethereum
- Ethereum: The Open-Source World Wide Computer
- Decentralized applications: Welcome to the future
- The power of decentralized autonomous organizations
- Hacking a Blockchain
- Understanding smart contracts
- Discovering the cryptocurrency Ether
- Getting Up and Running on Ethereum
- Mining for ether
- Setting up your Ethereum wallet
- Building Your First Decentralized Autonomous Organization
- Test net and congress
- Governance and voting
- Uncovering the Future of DAOs
- Putting money in a DAO
- Building smarter smart contracts
- Finding bugs in the system
- Creating Your Own ERC20 Tokens
- Seeing up your GitHub account
- Requesting KETH on the Gitter Faucet
- Creating your tokens
- Chapter 6. Riding the Waves Blockchain
- Seeing How the Waves Blockchain Differs from Other Blockchains
- Unleashing the Full Power of Waves
- Setting up your Waves wallet
- Backing up your wallet
- Uncovering Your Wallets Features
- Transferring crypto assets
- Using a decentralized exchange
- Creating and Leasing Out Your Own Cryptocurrency
- Chapter 7. Finding the Factom Blockchain
- A Matter of Trust
- The purpose of the Factom blockchain: Publishing anything
- Incentives of federation
- Building on Factom
- Authenticating documents and building identities using APIs
- Getting to know the Factoid: Not a normal cryptocurrency
- Anchoring your application
- Publishing on Factom
- Building transparency in the mortgage industry
- Verifying physical documents: dLoc with Factom
- Chapter 8. Examining the EOS Blockchain
- Getting Familiar with EOS
- New mining versus old mining
- The 21 block producers
- Setting Up EOS Voting for Block Producers
- Setting up the Greymass voting tool
- Voting for a block producer
- Introducing the EOS Decentralized Application Collection
- Everipedia: The next-generation encyclopedia
- Decentralized EOS games
- Part 3. Powerful Blockchain Platforms
- Chapter 9. Getting Your Hands on Hyperledger
- Getting to Know Hyperiedger
- Identifying Key Hyperledger Projects
- Focusing on Fabric
- Investigating the Iroha project
- Diving into Sawtooth Lake
- Building Your System in Fabric
- Building asset tracking with Hyperledger Composer
- Working with Smart Contracts on Hyperledger
- Step 1. Setting up an auction network
- Step 2. Setting up auction windows
- Step 3. Creating an auctioneer
- Step 4. Creating two participants
- Step 5. Creating a new asset
- Step 6. Creating a new listing
- Step 7. Auctioning off the car
- Step 8. Closing your auction
- Chapter 10. Applying Microsoft Azure
- Bletchley: The Modular Blockchain Fabric
- Cryptlets for encrypting and authenticating
- Utility and Contract Cryptlets and CrytoDelegates
- Building in the Azure Ecosystem
- Getting Started with Chain on Azure
- Installing Chain's distributed ledger
- Coating your own private network
- Using financial services on Azure's Chain
- Deploying Blockchain Tools on Azure
- Exploring Ethereum on Azure
- Cortana: Your analytics machine learning tool
- Visualizing your data with Power Bi
- Managing your access on Azure's Active Directory
- Chapter 11. Getting Busy on IBM Blumix
- Business Blockchain on Biuemix
- Your isolated environment
- Bluemix use cases
- Watson's Smart Blockchain
- Building Your Starter Network on Big Blue
- Part 4. Industry Impacts
- Chapter 12. Financial Technology
- Hauling Out Your Crystal Bali: Future Banking Trends
- Moving money faster: Across borders and more
- Creating permanent history
- Going international: Global Financial Products
- Border-free payroll
- Faster and better trade
- Guaranteed payments
- Micropayments-The new nature of transactions
- Squeezing Out Fraud
- Chapter 13. Real Estate
- Eliminating Title Insurance
- Protected industries
- Consumers and Fannie Mae
- Mortgages in the Blockchain World
- Reducing your origination costs
- Knowing your last-known document
- Forecasting Regional Trends
- The United States and Europe: Infrastructure congestion
- China: First out of the gate
- The developing world: Roadblocks to blockchain
- Chapter 14. Insurance
- Precisely Tailoring Coverage
- Insuring the individual
- The new world of micro insurance
- Witnessing for You: The Internet of Things
- IoT projects in insurance
- Implications of actionable big data
- Taking Out the Third Party in Insurance
- Decentralized security
- Crowdfunded coverage
- The implications of DAO insurance
- Chapter 15. Government
- The Smart Cities of Asia
- Singapore satellite cities in India
- China's big data problem
- The Battle for the Financial Capital of the World
- London's early foresight
- The regulatory sandbox of Singapore
- The Dubai 2020 initiative
- Bitlicense regulatory framework: New York City
- Friendly legal structure of Malta
- Securing the World's Borders
- The Department of Homeland Security and the identity of things
- Passports of the future
- The new feeder document
- Chapter 16. Other Industries
- Lean Governments
- Singapore's Smart Nation project
- Estonia's e-Residency
- Better notarization in China
- The Trust Layer for the internet
- Spam-free email
- Owning your identity
- Oracle of the Blockchain
- Trusted authorship
- Intellectual property rights
- Part 5. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 17. Ten (Or So) Free Blockachin Resources
- Ethereum
- DigiKnow
- Blockchain University
- Bitcoin Core
- Blockchain Alliance
- Multichain Blog
- HiveMind
- Smith + Crown
- Unchained and Unconfirmed Podcasts
- Chapter 18. The Ten Rules to Never Break on the Blockchain
- Don't Use Cryptocurrency or Blockchains to Skirt the Law
- Keep Your Contracts as Simple as Possible
- Publish with Great Caution
- Back Up, Back Up, Back Up Your Private Keys
- Triple-Check the Address Before Sending Currency
- Take Care When Using Exchanges
- Beware Wi-Fi
- Identify Your Blockchain Dev
- Don't Get Suckered
- Don't Trade Tokens Unless You Know What You're Doing
- Chapter 19. Ten Top Blockchain Projects
- The R3 Consortium
- T ZERO: Overstocking the Stock Market
- Blockstream's Distributed Systems
- MadHive
- Blockdaemon
- Gemini Dollar and Exchange
- Decentraland
- TransferWise
- Lightning Network
- Bitcoin Cash
- Index