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Blockchain Enabled Applications: Understand the Blockchain Ecosystem and How to Make it Work for You
Work with blockchain and understand its potential application beyond cryptocurrencies in the domains of healthcare, Internet of Things, finance, decentralized organizations, and open science. Featuring case studies and practical insights generated from a start-up spun off from the author's own lab, this book covers a unique mix of topics not found in others and offers insight into how to overcome real hurdles that arise as the market and consumers grow accustomed to blockchain based start-ups.
You'll start with a review of the historical origins of blockchain and explore the basic cryptography needed to make the blockchain work for Bitcoin. You will then learn about the technical advancements made in the surrounded ecosystem: the Ethereum virtual machine, Solidity, Colored Coins, the Hyperledger Project, Blockchain-as-a-service offered through IBM, Microsoft and more.
This book looks at the consequences of machine-to-machine transactions using the blockchain socially, technologically, economically and politically. Blockchain Enabled Applications provides you with a clear perspective of the ecosystem that has developed around the blockchain and the various industries it has penetrated.
What You'll Learn
Implement the code-base from Fabric and Sawtooth, two open source blockchain-efforts being developed under the Hyperledger Project
Evaluate the benefits of integrating blockchain with emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence in the cloud
Use the practical insights provided by the case studies to your own projects or start-up ideas
Set up a development environment to compile and manage projects Who This Book Is For
Developers who are interested in learning about the blockchain as a data-structure, the recent advancements being made and how to implement the code-base.
Decision makers within large corporations (product managers, directors or CIO level executives) interested in implementing the blockchain who need more practical insights and not just theory.
You'll start with a review of the historical origins of blockchain and explore the basic cryptography needed to make the blockchain work for Bitcoin. You will then learn about the technical advancements made in the surrounded ecosystem: the Ethereum virtual machine, Solidity, Colored Coins, the Hyperledger Project, Blockchain-as-a-service offered through IBM, Microsoft and more.
This book looks at the consequences of machine-to-machine transactions using the blockchain socially, technologically, economically and politically. Blockchain Enabled Applications provides you with a clear perspective of the ecosystem that has developed around the blockchain and the various industries it has penetrated.
What You'll Learn
Implement the code-base from Fabric and Sawtooth, two open source blockchain-efforts being developed under the Hyperledger Project
Evaluate the benefits of integrating blockchain with emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence in the cloud
Use the practical insights provided by the case studies to your own projects or start-up ideas
Set up a development environment to compile and manage projects Who This Book Is For
Developers who are interested in learning about the blockchain as a data-structure, the recent advancements being made and how to implement the code-base.
Decision makers within large corporations (product managers, directors or CIO level executives) interested in implementing the blockchain who need more practical insights and not just theory.
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506 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 4, 2021
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January 26, 2022
I read this book in 2021, so naturally a lot of the content in the book is outdated. Yet I found the book useful. It gave me the historical context that I might have missed if I started from newer blockchain-related educational resources.
Readers can skip chapters 8-12 because they are outdated or irrelevant (still a good resource to learn projects that eventually failed to take off).
Readers can skip chapters 8-12 because they are outdated or irrelevant (still a good resource to learn projects that eventually failed to take off).
October 4, 2018
Overly technical book, with varying quality of writing. The first half keeps using concepts before they are properly introduced, which is confusing and demotivating.
The second half is more about applications: in particular, the chapters about applications of blockchain in science and healthcare are useful. But even there, the authors manage to make things unnecessarily technical.
The second half is more about applications: in particular, the chapters about applications of blockchain in science and healthcare are useful. But even there, the authors manage to make things unnecessarily technical.
December 11, 2021
Must read for blockchain enthusiasts
Vikram covers blockchain technology from scratch and made readers comfortable with the underlying technology and then builds upon it. Discusses the application of the blockchain technology in the enterprise context. Focuses more upon healthcare application with detailed interviews with the leading healthcare consortium members.
Vikram covers blockchain technology from scratch and made readers comfortable with the underlying technology and then builds upon it. Discusses the application of the blockchain technology in the enterprise context. Focuses more upon healthcare application with detailed interviews with the leading healthcare consortium members.
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