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Blockchain for Decision Makers

You're reading from Blockchain for Decision Makers A systematic guide to using blockchain for improving your business

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781838552275

Length 184 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Blockchain

Concepts

Blockchain

Author (1):

Romain Tormen

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: A First Step into Blockchain and an Exciting World FREE CHAPTER

2. Basics of Blockchains and the Illustration of Village Beta

3. A Technical Dive into Blockchain

4. Ethereum and Smart Contracts

5. ICOs and Tokenized Fundraising Methods

6. Section 2: Blockchain in Practice, Insights, and Achievements

7. An Economic and Historical Approach of Blockchain

8. Blockchain Legality, Compliance, and Regulation

9. Blockchain for the Business World and Achievements

10. Future Outlook for Blockchain

11. Section 3: Blockchain for Business Leaders

12. Infrastructures and Cloud-Based Solutions

13. Defining Your Needs

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Ethereum is one of the most prominent projects in the blockchain ecosystem. It was officially launched in July 2015 in order to overcome some of Bitcoin's major limitation. A new programming language was created to enable the development of much more sophisticated operations than those used in Bitcoin. The goal of Ethereum is to allow the creation of decentralized applications (dApps) upon its infrastructure with the help of a unit of account called Ether, facilitating the developer's job by solely focusing on the service rather than the protocol. Ethereum was the first platform to introduce new concepts such as smart contracts and dApps, which brought to blockchain technology more user-friendliness and, of course, more applications for the end users than a sole cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin. One could now develop from scratch a new...

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Authors (1)

Romain Tormen

Romain Tormen

Romain Tormen is a senior consultant for PwC, a worldwide consulting firm. He has experienced digital transformation within several industries and different business units. Specialized in emerging technologies, he promotes to his clients the use of blockchain for better transaction security, transparency, disintermediation, and third-parties authentication. As a contributing writer for one of the most-read tech-oriented website hackernoon, Romain gives business insights and provides use-cases for a broad range of industries.

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