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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

You're reading from   Blockchain Development with Hyperledger Build decentralized applications with Hyperledger Fabric and Composer

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Product type Course
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838649982
Length 636 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anthony O'Dowd Anthony O'Dowd
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Petr Novotny Petr Novotny
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Weimin Sun Weimin Sun
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Weimin Sun
Nitin Gaur Nitin Gaur
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Nitin Gaur
Luc Desrosiers Luc Desrosiers
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Luc Desrosiers
Venkatraman Ramakrishna Venkatraman Ramakrishna
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Xun (Brian) Wu Xun (Brian) Wu
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Salman A. Baset Salman A. Baset
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Blockchain - Enterprise and Industry Perspective 2. Exploring Hyperledger Fabric FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting the Stage with a Business Scenario 4. Designing a Data and Transaction Model with Golang 5. Exposing Network Assets and Transactions 6. Business Networks 7. A Business Network Example 8. Agility in a Blockchain Network 9. Life in a Blockchain Network 10. Governance, Necessary Evil of Regulated Industries 11. Hyperledger Fabric Security 12. Introduction to Blockchain Technology 13. Ethereum Fundamentals 14. Overview of Solidity Programming 15. Building an Ethereum Blockchain Application 16. Exploring an Enterprise Blockchain Application Using Hyperledger Fabric 17. Implementing Business Networks Using Hyperledger Composer 18. Blockchain Use Cases 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Chapter 12. Introduction to Blockchain Technology

In this chapter, we give an overview of blockchain, along with its key concepts such as cryptography and hash algorithms, the distributed ledger, transactions, blocks, proof of work, mining, and consensus. We cover Bitcoin, the mother of blockchain technology, in detail. We briefly introduce Ethereum by pointing out some limitations of Bitcoin and how they are addressed by Ethereum. While Bitcoin and Ethereum are examples of public blockchains, IBM's Hyperledger is used as an example of enterprise blockchains. At the end of this chapter, we mention the evolution of the blockchain: blockchain 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and beyond, based on their use cases. Specifically, we will cover the following topics on blockchain:

  • A genealogical analogy for blockchain
  • The Bitcoin consensus mechanism
  • A brief discussion of Hyperledger 
  • Blockchain evolution

 

 

 

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