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Mastering Blockchain

You're reading from   Mastering Blockchain Distributed ledger technology, decentralization, and smart contracts explained

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839044
Length 656 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Imran Bashir Imran Bashir
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Blockchain 101 FREE CHAPTER 2. Decentralization 3. Symmetric Cryptography 4. Public Key Cryptography 5. Introducing Bitcoin 6. Bitcoin Network and Payments 7. Bitcoin Clients and APIs 8. Alternative Coins 9. Smart Contracts 10. Ethereum 101 11. Further Ethereum 12. Ethereum Development Environment 13. Development Tools and Frameworks 14. Introducing Web3 15. Hyperledger 16. Alternative Blockchains 17. Blockchain – Outside of Currencies 18. Scalability and Other Challenges 19. Current Landscape and What's Next 20. Another Book You May Enjoy

Notable projects

Following is a list of notable projects in the blockchain space that is currently in progress. In addition to these projects, there is also a myriad of start-ups and companies working in the blockchain space and offering blockchain-related products.

Zcash on Ethereum

A recent project by the Ethereum R&D team is the implementation of Zcash on Ethereum. This is an exciting project whereby developers are trying to create a privacy layer for Ethereum using ZK-SNARKs already used in Zcash project. With Zcash implementation on Ethereum, the aim is to create a platform that allows applications such as voting where privacy is of paramount importance.

It will also allow the creation of anonymous tokens on Ethereum...

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