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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839218750

Length 756 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Blockchain

Concepts

Blockchain

Authors (7):

Salman A. Baset

Venkatraman Ramakrishna

Salman Baset

Anthony O'Dowd

Petr Novotny

Nitin Gaur

Luc Desrosiers

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Blockchain – An Enterprise and Industry Perspective

2. Exploring Hyperledger Fabric FREE CHAPTER

3. Business Networks

4. Setting the Stage with a Business Scenario

5. Designing Smart Contract Transactions and Ledger Data Structures

6. Developing Smart Contracts

7. Developing Applications

8. Advanced Topics for Developing Smart Contracts and Applications

9. Network Operation and Distributed Application Building

10. Enterprise Design Patterns and Considerations

11. Agility in a Blockchain Network

12. Governance – A Necessary Evil of Regulated Industries

13. Life in a Blockchain Network

14. Hyperledger Fabric Security

15. Blockchain's Future, Protocol Commercialization, and Challenges Ahead

16. Another Book You May Enjoy

17. Index

Decentralization and governance

You may be wondering why we are covering such a topic in a blockchain book. After all, aren't blockchain networks supposed to be decentralized and, therefore, guarded against the control of a single entity? The reality is that, behind the technology, there are humans who shape the direction of the solution. For an enterprise-grade blockchain network to succeed, it requires many decisions throughout its life cycle.

Even Bitcoin, the decentralized, anonymous, permissionless network, must deal with hard decisions. A case in point is the controversy around Bitcoin's block size. In the early days of Bitcoin, the developers set a block size limit of 1 MB. As the network scaled up, this limit became problematic. Numerous proposals were issued, but the need for a consensus across the entirety of Bitcoin nodes made the change a challenge to agree upon. The debate started in 2015, but the community had to wait until February 2018...