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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

Public blockchain providers

Now that we know the difference between the types of blockchain, let's go on a tour of the various blockchain providers, starting with the most widely-used and including anticipated platforms available for decentralized applications. In the public space, we will explore four platforms: Ethereum, Neo, IPFS, and Blockstack, but the number of platforms is growing fast.

Collection of public blockchain platforms

Ethereum

Ethereum is one of the longest-existing public blockchains. It is an open platform that lets you build, run, and use decentralized applications using blockchain technology. It is an open source project created by Vitalik Buterin. It is maintained by developers all over the world, so no individual truly owns Ethereum (https://ethereum.org/), rather it is maintained by the community. This decentralized platform runs applications in the form of smart contracts—applications that run exactly as programmed without censorship, fraud, or interference by a third...