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Blockchain for Business 2019

By : Peter Lipovyanov
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Blockchain for Business 2019

By: Peter Lipovyanov

Overview of this book

Blockchain for Business 2019 is a comprehensive guide that enables you to bring in various blockchain functionalities to extend your existing business models and make correct fully-informed decisions. You will learn how decentralized applications are transforming numerous business sectors that are expected to play a huge role in the future. You will see how large corporations are already implementing blockchain technology now. You will then learn about the various blockchain services, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hyperledger, and others to understand their use cases in a variety of business domains. You will develop a solid fundamental understanding of blockchain architecture. Moving ahead, you will get to grips with the inner workings of blockchain, with detailed explanations of mining, decentralized consensus, cryptography, smart contracts, and many other important concepts. You will delve into a realistic view of the current state of blockchain technology, along with its issues, limitations, and potential solutions that can take it to the next level. By the end of this book, you will all be well versed in the latest innovations and developments in the emerging blockchain space.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

The Ethereum Virtual Machine

At this point you are probably thinking—OMG! Another virtual thing! We had to get used to abstractions such as virtual currencies, virtual assets and now we are talking about virtual machines?! Well, we live in the digital information age, so virtual goods and virtual reality are going to be more and more present in our everyday life. So, it's useful to get comfortable with such concepts step-by-step. Virtual machines are a pretty abstract concept, so we'll try and tackle the difficult task of explaining it from several angles.

Introduction to virtual machines

Virtual machines are not an entirely new idea in distributed computing. With the continued development of the World Wide...