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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838552275
Length 184 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Romain Tormen Romain Tormen
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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

Corda

Corda is an open source blockchain project specifically designed for business. The main problem Corda is trying to solve is enabling financial institutions, healthcare organizations, and insurance companies to agree simultaneously on the state of their books as well as bringing privacy in transactions between participants of a given consortium. General hurdles in the financial sector affect transaction synchronization and constant truth assessment in account balances through a wide variety of verifications that increase delays and costs for every stakeholder in the process. Corda was built to overcome that by using distributed ledger technology. Corda was developed by R3, a company founded in 2014 that formed a large ecosystem, including financial companies that work together to build applications called CorDapps on the platform.

"Corda is a unique, open source platform...
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