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You're reading from Blockchain Quick Start Guide A beginner's guide to developing enterprise-grade decentralized applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789807974

Length 222 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Solidity

Tools

Blockchain

Concepts

Blockchain

Authors (2):

Xun (Brian) Wu

Weimin Sun

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Blockchain Technology

2. Ethereum Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Overview of Solidity Programming

4. Building an Ethereum Blockchain Application

5. Exploring an Enterprise Blockchain Application Using Hyperledger Fabric

6. Implementing Business Networks Using Hyperledger Composer

7. Blockchain Use Cases

8. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Ethereum Fundamentals

Ethereum is an open source public blockchain and is considered to be an alternative coin to Bitcoin. A Canadian cryptocurrency researcher and programmer, Vitalik Buterin, proposed the idea in late 2013. Founded by an online crowdsale that took place in the middle of 2014, the platform went live at the end of July 2015. The DAO event in 2016 led to a hard fork, resulting in a split into Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC).

In this chapter, we cover the following topics about Ethereum:

Overview of Ethereum
Basic concepts such as ether, ERC20 tokens, smart contracts, EVM, gas, accounts, and oracles
The Ethereum performance issue and ongoing efforts to address the issue, such as PoS, Casper, Plasma, and Sharding

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Authors (2)

Xun (Brian) Wu

Xun (Brian) Wu is a senior blockchain architect and consultant. With over 20 years of hands-on experience across various technologies, including Blockchain, big data, cloud, AI, systems, and infrastructure, Brian has worked on more than 50 projects in his career. He has authored nine books, which have been published by O'Reilly, Packt, and Apress, focusing on popular fields within the Blockchain industry. The titles of his books include: Learn Ethereum (First Edition), Learn Ethereum (Second Edition), Blockchain for Teens, Hands-On Smart Contract Development with Hyperledger Fabric V2, Hyperledger Cookbook, Blockchain Quick Start Guide, Security Tokens and Stablecoins Quick Start Guide, Blockchain by Example, and Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week.

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Sun

Weimin Sun has 20 years' of experience working in the financial industry. He has worked for top-tier investment and commercial banks such as J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Citibank, and Morgan Stanley, where he also managed large teams for developing IT applications. Weimin has also held corporate titles such as executive director and senior VP in some of these firms. Weimin has in-depth knowledge of the blockchain technology, data science, data architecture, data modeling, and big data platforms. He holds Ph.D, M.B.A and M.Sc degrees. He has co-authored Blockchain Quick Start Guide and published several statistical journal papers.

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