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Mastering Blockchain

You're reading from   Mastering Blockchain Deeper insights into decentralization, cryptography, Bitcoin, and popular Blockchain frameworks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125445
Length 540 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Imran Bashir Imran Bashir
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Preface 1. Blockchain 101 FREE CHAPTER 2. Decentralization 3. Cryptography and Technical Foundations 4. Bitcoin 5. Alternative Coins 6. Smart Contracts 7. Ethereum 101 8. Ethereum Development 9. Hyperledger 10. Alternative Blockchains 11. Blockchain-Outside of Currencies 12. Scalability and Other Challenges 13. Current Landscape and Whats Next

Decentralized autonomous organizations


Just like DOs, a Decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is also a computer program than runs on top of a blockchain and embedded within it are governance and business logic rules. DAO and DO are basically the same thing, but the main difference is that DAOs are autonomous, which means that they are fully automated and contain artificially intelligent logic, whereas DOs lack this feature and rely on human input in order to execute business logic.

Ethereum blockchain led the way with the introduction of DAOs for the first time. In DAO, the code is considered the governing entity rather than humans or paper contracts. A Curator, however, is a human entity that participates as someone who maintains this code and acts as a proposal evaluator for the community. DAOs are capable of hiring external Contractors if enough input is received from the token holders (participants). The most famous DAO project is The DAO (https://daohub.org) as it raised 168 million...

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