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Blockchain across Oracle

You're reading from   Blockchain across Oracle Understand the details and implications of the Blockchain for Oracle developers and customers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788474290
Length 530 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Robert van Molken Robert van Molken
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part I FREE CHAPTER
2. An Introduction to the Blockchain 3. How Blockchain Will Disrupt Your Organization 4. Part II
5. Blockchain 101 - Assets, Transactions, and Hashes 6. Blockchain 101 - Blocks, Chains, and Consensus 7. Blockchain 101 - Security, Privacy, and Smart Contracts 8. Understanding the Blockchain Data Flow 9. Public Versus Permissioned Blockchains and their Providers 10. Part III
11. Ethereum Versus Hyperledger 12. Building a Next-Generation Oracle B2B Platform 13. Introducing the Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service 14. Setting Up Your Permissioned Blockchain 15. Designing and Developing Your First Smart Contract 16. Deploying and Testing Your First Smart Contract 17. Configuring, Extending, and Monitoring Your Network 18. Part IV
19. Blockchain Across the Financial Services Industry 20. Blockchain Across the Transportation Industry 21. Blockchain Across the Healthcare Industry 22. Future Industry and Technology Directions 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

How does a blockchain work?

The technology (that is, the architecture, mechanisms, security, and so forth) behind the blockchain can be seen both as the backbone for future accounting and as an engine for a modern message transport system. So how does a blockchain actually work during runtime?

The following diagram shows how blockchain systems must follow a specific flow of actions in order to consistently maintain a distributed ledger of facts (a key-value database with the current state of assets) and a separate history of their updates (distributed transaction log). The transactions that you submit are stored and verified without the involvement of a governing central authority using advanced mathematics and computer science, that is, cryptographic hash functions.

The blockchain not only secures these transactions but also protects their integrity (and anonymity)...

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