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Product type Book

Published in Oct 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788474290

Pages 530 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Solidity

Concepts

Cryptocurrency

Author (1):

Robert van Molken

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. An Introduction to the Blockchain

2. How Blockchain Will Disrupt Your Organization

3. Blockchain 101 - Assets, Transactions, and Hashes

4. Blockchain 101 - Blocks, Chains, and Consensus

5. Blockchain 101 - Security, Privacy, and Smart Contracts

6. Understanding the Blockchain Data Flow

7. Public Versus Permissioned Blockchains and their Providers

8. Ethereum Versus Hyperledger

9. Building a Next-Generation Oracle B2B Platform

10. Introducing the Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service

11. Setting Up Your Permissioned Blockchain

12. Designing and Developing Your First Smart Contract

13. Deploying and Testing Your First Smart Contract

14. Configuring, Extending, and Monitoring Your Network

15. Blockchain Across the Financial Services Industry

16. Blockchain Across the Transportation Industry

17. Blockchain Across the Healthcare Industry

18. Future Industry and Technology Directions

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Index

Why did Oracle pick Hyperledger Fabric?

When answering this question, you need to look at the kinds of industries and customers that Oracle actively serves. Oracle's largest customers can be found in supply chain management, transportation, healthcare, and government. These are all industries where different businesses work closely together and transact (confidential/private) information between each other (B2B). This, of course, needs to be handled with care and should not be leaked to the public.

With this in mind, the choice of Hyperledger Fabric is not very far-fetched. As already explained in Chapter 8, Ethereum Versus Hyperledger, Fabric is intended as a foundation for developing decentralized blockchain solutions in need of a distributed ledger, and it provides the required permissioned blockchain model and membership services.

We have seen that Fabric does not require/use cryptocurrency to keep the network running. The consensus model does not incentivize participating nodes for validating...