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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

Corda


Corda is not a blockchain. Traditional blockchain solutions, as discussed before, have the concept of transactions that are bundled together in a block and each block is linked back cryptographically to its parent block, which provides an immutable record of transactions. This is not the case with Corda: Corda has been designed entirely from scratch with a new model for providing all blockchain benefits, but without a traditional blockchain. It has been developed purely for the financial industry to solve issues arising from the fact that each organization manages their own ledgers and thus have their own view of truth, which leads to contradictions and operational risk. Moreover, data is also duplicated at each organization which results in an increased cost of managing individual infrastructures and complexity. These are the types of problems within the financial industry that Corda aims to resolve by building a decentralized database platform.

Corda source code is available at https...

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