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Blockchain for Business 2019

You're reading from Blockchain for Business 2019

Product type Book

Published in Jan 2019

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ISBN-13 9781789956023

Pages 258 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Peter Lipovyanov

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptoassets

2. A Brief History of Money

3. The Birth of Bitcoin and the Advantages of a Decentralized Payment System

4. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #1 Blockchain

5. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #2 Cryptography

6. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #3 Consensus Algorithm

7. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #4 P2P Network

8. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #5 Software Code Base

9. How Ethereum Took the Idea of Blockchain to the Next Level

10. Ethereum - A Global Platform for Decentralized Applications

11. Blockchains Focused on Specific Sectors and Use Cases

12. Corporate Blockchains

13. The Disruptive Potential of Blockchain Technology

14. Blockchain and AI

15. Current Issues and Potential Solutions to Take Blockchain to the Next Level

16. Other Books You may Enjoy

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Decentralized applications based on Ethereum

We already learned that Bitcoin is the first public blockchain system designed for peer-to-peer payments. It is the pre-eminent cryptoasset.

Ethereum took blockchain technology a step further aiming to become a global decentralized computing platform. It started the second generation of public blockchain technology. The goal of Ethereum is ambitious and enterprising: it aims to enable a large ecosystem of decentralized applications on the blockchain, and thus create a more decentralized version of the World Wide Web—a project known as Web 3.0.

OK! So, what would these decentralized applications look like?

Types of decentralized applications

We can broadly distinguish three...

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Authors (1)

Peter Lipovyanov

Peter Lipovyanov is an experienced investment banker and venture investor currently focusing on blockchain projects and crypto-assets. A firm believer in the potential of blockchain technology to change the world for the better by facilitating financial inclusion across the globe and improving the efficiency of financial markets and other sectors of the economy, he has been involved in several promising blockchain projects building decentralized applications. His passion for education also led him to create a bestseller online course about the fundamental principles of blockchain technology and its business applications, which is the basis for this book.

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