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Blockchain for Business 2019
BlockchainforBusiness2019isacomprehensiveguidethatenablesyoutobringinvariousblockchainfunctionalitiestoextendyourexistingbusinessmodelsandmakecorrectfully-informeddecisions.Youwilllearnhowdecentralizedapplicationsaretransformingnumerousbusinesssectorsthatareexpectedtoplayahugeroleinthefuture.Youwillseehowlargecorporationsarealreadyimplementingblockchaintechnologynow.Youwillthenlearnaboutthevariousblockchainservices,suchasBitcoin,Ethereum,Hyperledger,andotherstounderstandtheirusecasesinavarietyofbusinessdomains.Youwilldevelopasolidfundamentalunderstandingofblockchainarchitecture.Movingahead,youwillgettogripswiththeinnerworkingsofblockchain,withdetailedexplanationsofmining,decentralizedconsensus,cryptography,smartcontracts,andmanyotherimportantconcepts.Youwilldelveintoarealisticviewofthecurrentstateofblockchaintechnology,alongwithitsissues,limitations,andpotentialsolutionsthatcantakeittothenextlevel.Bytheendofthisbook,youwillallbewellversedinthelatestinnovationsanddevelopmentsintheemergingblockchainspace.
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- coverpage
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Blockchain for Business 2019
- About Packt
- Why subscribe?
- Packt.com
- Contributors
- About the author
- About the reviewers
- Packt is searching for authors like you
- Preface
- Who this book is for
- What this book covers
- To get the most out of this book
- Download the color images
- Conventions used
- Get in touch
- Reviews
- Bitcoin Blockchain and Cryptoassets
- An introduction to blockchain
- The rise of blockchain
- Key features of blockchain
- Ease of access
- Blockchain – the internet of money
- The hype of industrial companies around blockchain
- Impacts of blockchain
- Impacts in the financial sector
- Impacts in our daily lives
- The Chinese formula scandal
- Blood diamonds
- Impacts of blockchain on the internet
- Summary
- A Brief History of Money
- An introduction to money
- Money as a medium of exchange
- Money as a unit of account
- Money as a store of value
- Money – an abstraction of value
- The gold standard
- An introduction to fiat currencies
- What happens when fiat currency systems fail
- How blockchain comes into the picture
- Summary
- The Birth of Bitcoin and the Advantages of a Decentralized Payment System
- How Bitcoin came into existence
- The beginning of the economic crisis
- The birth of Bitcoin
- Projects leading up to Bitcoin
- An introduction to Bitcoin
- Double-spending and how Bitcoin resolved it
- How traditional payment systems work
- Electronic transfers in banks
- Credit and debit card transactions
- Transactions in PayPal
- Differences between centralized and decentralized payment systems
- Summary
- Five Forces of Bitcoin - #1 Blockchain
- Introduction to Bitcoin's five forces
- The first force – blockchain
- Why blockchain is better
- How blockchain works
- Different types of blockchain
- Public blockchains
- Private blockchains
- Value of blockchain
- Areas where blockchain can be handy
- Summary
- Five Forces of Bitcoin - #2 Cryptography
- Introduction to cryptography
- Uses of cryptography in early times
- Types of cryptography
- Cryptographic techniques used in Bitcoin
- Hash functions
- Digital signatures
- Summary
- Five Forces of Bitcoin - #3 Consensus Algorithm
- The Byzantine Generals' Problem
- The Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm
- Introduction to mining
- The different aspects of a Bitcoin transaction
- Nonce and difficulty
- The computing power
- Decentralized consensus and game theory
- Examples of miner misbehavior
- Example of double-spending
- The architecture surrounding the Bitcoin network
- Consensus attacks
- Summary
- Five Forces of Bitcoin - #4 P2P Network
- Introduction to P2P networks
- P2P model versus client-server model
- Financial transactions
- How Bitcoin differs
- Nodes of the Bitcoin network
- Types of nodes
- Full nodes
- SPV nodes
- The Bitcoin P2P network
- The mainnet
- The testnet
- Additional entities
- Summary
- Five Forces of Bitcoin - #5 Software Code Base
- Introduction to Bitcoin's software code case
- Wallets
- Blockchain explorer
- Bitcoin's scripting language
- Bitcoin as an application platform
- Asset registry
- Crowdfunding
- Summary
- How Ethereum Took the Idea of Blockchain to the Next Level
- Introduction to Ethereum
- How Ethereum came into existence
- The Theil fellowship
- Understanding Ethereum
- The Ethereum Virtual Machine
- Introduction to virtual machines
- Summary
- Ethereum - A Global Platform for Decentralized Applications
- Decentralized applications based on Ethereum
- Types of decentralized applications
- Ethereum and initial coin offerings
- Decentralized autonomous organizations
- The DAO
- Summary
- Blockchains Focused on Specific Sectors and Use Cases
- The different categories of blockchain
- Sector-specific public blockchains
- Blockchain and IoT
- Private blockchains
- How blockchain affects privacy
- Blockchain cryptoassets dealing with privacy
- Summary
- Corporate Blockchains
- Introduction to corporate blockchains
- R3 Corda
- The core services provided by blockchains
- Hyperledger
- The Hyperledger frameworks
- Hyperledger Fabric
- Hyperledger Sawtooth
- Sawtooth architecture
- Hyperledger Iroha
- Hyperledger Burrow
- Hyperledger Indy
- Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
- Private blockchains for business
- Summary
- The Disruptive Potential of Blockchain Technology
- Blockchain and financial services
- How blockchain comes into the picture
- Why banks shouldn't ignore blockchain
- But why should banks even bother?
- Banking business lines that can be potentially disrupted
- How blockchain can affect lending
- Trade finance on the blockchain
- Blockchain and insurance
- Investment banking and blockchain
- Blockchain and financial regulation
- Blockchain and the retail sector
- The Internet of Things
- How is this related to the retail industry?
- Blockchain and intellectual property
- Blockchain and the food sector
- Blockchain and the transportation sector
- Blockchain and the global tech giants
- How could blockchain disrupt YouTube's dominance?
- How could Blockchain disrupt AdSense?
- How could blockchain disrupt Facebook's business?
- Amazon
- The impact of blockchain on Amazon Web services
- Apple
- Summary
- Blockchain and AI
- A brief history of AI
- Implementing AI
- Projects combining blockchain and AI
- Future of AI for smart contracts
- Summary
- Current Issues and Potential Solutions to Take Blockchain to the Next Level
- Issues faced by blockchain
- Scalability
- Governance
- Interoperability
- Privacy
- Solutions for scalability issues
- On-chain solutions
- Proof-of-Stake
- Sharding
- Off-chain solutions
- Payment or state channels
- Plasma
- Truebit
- Solutions to other challenges
- Next generation blockchain projects
- The exciting world of blockchain
- Resemblance to previous disruptive innovations
- The technology hype cycle
- Blockchain and Web 3.0
- Summary
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