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Unravel the mysteries of blockchains
Blockchain technologies are disrupting some of the world's biggest industries. Blockchain For Dummies provides a fast way to catch up with the essentials of this quickly evolving tech. Written by an author involved in founding and analyzing blockchain solutions, this book serves to help those who need to understand what a blockchain can do (and can't do).
This revised edition walks you through how a blockchainsecurely records data across independent networks. It offers a tour of some of the world's best-known blockchains, including those that power Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It also provides a glance at how blockchain solutions are affecting the worlds of finance, supply chain management, insurance, and governments.
Get a clear picture of what a blockchain can do
Learn how blockchains rule cryptocurrency and smart contracts
Discover current blockchains and how each of them work
Test blockchain apps
Blockchain has become the critical buzzword in the world of financial technology and transaction security -- and now you can make sense of it with the help of this essential guide.
Auteur
Tiana Laurence is a blockchain pioneer, an investor, and a serial entrepreneur. She co-founded Factom, Inc., a software company that builds technology within the blockchain space. She is currently a columnist for TechTarget with writings focusing on blockchain and IoT and managing partner of Laurence Ventures, a firm investing in technology initiatives.
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Discover how current blockchains operate Understand how blockchains are changing technology Blockchain is the techno-magic that enables cryptocurrencies and impacts the worlds of finance, insurance, supply chain management, and others. But you don't need to be a programmer or financial wizard to understand blockchain; you just need this book! It explains blockchain basics, smart contracts, and cryptocurrencies, with real-world examples showing how blockchains function and where they add value. Learn how to interact with a blockchain, tour key blockchains, see how they disrupt huge industries, and much more. Inside...
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Unravel the mysteries of blockchains
Blockchain technologies are disrupting some of the world's biggest industries. Blockchain For Dummies provides a fast way to catch up with the essentials of this quickly evolving tech. Written by an author involved in founding and analyzing blockchain solutions, this book serves to help those who need to understand what a blockchain can do (and can't do).
This revised edition walks you through how a blockchainsecurely records data across independent networks. It offers a tour of some of the world's best-known blockchains, including those that power Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It also provides a glance at how blockchain solutions are affecting the worlds of finance, supply chain management, insurance, and governments.
Contenu
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 2
Icons Used in This Book 2
Beyond the Book 3
Where to Go from Here 3
Part 1: Getting Started with Blockchain 5
Chapter 1: Introducing Blockchain 7
Beginning at the Beginning: What Blockchains are 7
What blockchains do 8
Why blockchains matter 9
The Structure of Blockchains 10
Blockchain Applications 12
The Blockchain Life Cycle 12
Consensus: The Driving Force of Blockchains 13
Blockchains in Use 15
Current blockchain uses 16
Future blockchain applications 16
Chapter 2: Picking a Blockchain 19
Where Blockchains Add Substance 19
Determining your needs 20
Defining your goal 21
Choosing a Solution 22
Drawing a blockchain decision tree 23
Making a plan 24
Chapter 3: Getting Your Hands on Blockchain 27
Diving into Blockchain Technology 28
Creating a secure environment 28
Buying your first Bitcoin 31
Securing and Exchanging Your Cryptocurrency 32
Downloading Jaxx 33
Securing your Jaxx wallet 33
Transferring Bitcoin to Jaxx 34
Trading Bitcoin for Ether 35
Loading up your MetaMask account 35
Setting up a CryptoKitties account 36
Building a Private Blockchain with Docker and Ethereum 38
Preparing your computer 39
Building your blockchain 41
Part 2: Developing Your Knowledge 43
Chapter 4: Beholding the Bitcoin Blockchain 45
Getting a Brief History of the Bitcoin Blockchain 46
The New Bitcoin: Bitcoin Cash 48
Debunking Some Common Bitcoin Misconceptions 50
Bitcoin: The New Wild West 51
Fake sites 52
No, you first! 52
Get-rich-quick schemes 52
Mining for Bitcoins 53
Making Your First Paper Wallet 54
Chapter 5: Encountering the Ethereum Blockchain 57
Exploring the Brief History of Ethereum 58
Ethereum: The Open-Source World Wide Computer 59
Decentralized applications: Welcome to the future 60
The power of decentralized autonomous organizations 61
Hacking a Blockchain 64
Understanding smart contracts 64
Discovering the cryptocurrency Ether 65
Getting Up and Running on Ethereum 65
Mining for ether 66
Setting up your Ethereum wallet 66
Building Your First Decentralized Autonomous Organization 67
Test net and congress 68
Governance and voting 69
Uncovering the Future of DAOs 69
Putting money in a DAO 70
Building smarter smart contracts 70
Finding bugs in the system 71
Creating Your Own ERC20 Tokens 71
Seeing up your GitHub account 71
Requesting KETH on the Gitter Faucet 72
Creating your tokens 73
Chapter 6: Riding the Waves Blockchain 77
Seeing How the Waves Blockchain Differs from Other Blockchains 78
Unleashing the Full Power of Waves 79
Setting up your Waves wallet 80
Backing up your wallet 80
Uncovering Your Wallet's Features 81
Transferring crypto assets 82
Using a decentralized exchange 82
Creating and Leasing Out Your Own Cryptocurrency 85
Chapter 7: Finding the Factom Blockchain 87
A Matter of Trust 88
The purpose of the Factom blockchain: Publishing anything 89
Incentives of federation 90
Building on Factom 93
Authenticating documents and building identities using APIs 93 Getting to know the Fac...