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Mastering Blockchain

You're reading from   Mastering Blockchain A deep dive into distributed ledgers, consensus protocols, smart contracts, DApps, cryptocurrencies, Ethereum, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839213199
Length 816 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Imran Bashir Imran Bashir
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Preface 1. Blockchain 101 2. Decentralization FREE CHAPTER 3. Symmetric Cryptography 4. Public Key Cryptography 5. Consensus Algorithms 6. Introducing Bitcoin 7. The Bitcoin Network and Payments 8. Bitcoin Clients and APIs 9. Alternative Coins 10. Smart Contracts 11. Ethereum 101 12. Further Ethereum 13. Ethereum Development Environment 14. Development Tools and Frameworks 15. Introducing Web3 16. Serenity 17. Hyperledger 18. Tokenization 19. Blockchain – Outside of Currencies 20. Enterprise Blockchain 21. Scalability and Other Challenges 22. Current Landscape and What's Next 23. Index

Enterprise blockchain challenges

While enterprise blockchains have addressed core enterprise requirements (privacy, performance, and governance) to some extent, there are still more challenges that need to be addressed. There is significant progress being made toward solving these issues. However, there is still a lot of work required to be done to adequately address these limitations. Some of these limitations are listed as follows.

Interoperability

Blockchain solutions are built by different development teams with different targets requirements. As a result, there are now many different types of blockchains, ranging from cryptocurrency public blockchains to application-specific blockchains, which are developed for a single business application. Data exchange between these chains is a crucial concern. While blockchain networks continue to grow independently, integration and interoperability between these chains remains a big concern.

This problem also stems out from lack...

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