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Blockchain By Example

You're reading from   Blockchain By Example A developer's guide to creating decentralized applications using Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hyperledger

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475686
Length 528 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Xun (Brian) Wu Xun (Brian) Wu
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Richard Horrocks Richard Horrocks
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Preface 1. Say Hello to Blockchain FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Bitcoin Payment System 3. Building Your Own Cryptocurrency 4. Peer-to-Peer Auctions in Ethereum 5. Tontine Game with Truffle and Drizzle 6. Blockchain-Based Futures System 7. Blockchains in Business 8. Creating an ICO 9. Distributed Storage IPFS and Swarm 10. Supply Chain on Hyperledger 11. Letter of Credit (LC) Hyperledger 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Quorum

Quorum (https://www.jpmorgan.com/global/Quorum) is an enterprise-focused fork of the Ethereum codebase, and offers a private blockchain infrastructure aimed specifically at financial use cases. It was created by J.P.Morgan, and claims to address three of the topics that would make a public blockchain network unsuitable for business use:

  • Privacy, of both transaction and contract data
  • Higher performance and throughput
  • Permission and governance

Privacy

To achieve its headline feature of making transactions and contract data private, Quorum builds on Ethereum's existing transaction model, rather than completely redefining it.

Public transactions and public contracts are visible to everyone on the network, and make...

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