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Blockchain for Decision Makers

By : Romain Tormen
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Blockchain for Decision Makers

By: Romain Tormen

Overview of this book

In addition to cryptocurrencies, blockchain-based apps are being developed in different industries such as banking, supply chain, and healthcare to achieve digital transformation and enhance user experience. Blockchain is not only about Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies, but also about different technologies such as peer-to-peer networks, consensus mechanisms, and cryptography. These technologies together help sustain trustless environments in which digital value can be transferred between individuals without intermediaries. This book will help you understand the basics of blockchain such as consensus protocols, decentralized applications, and tokenization. You'll focus on how blockchain is used today in different industries and the technological challenges faced while implementing a blockchain strategy. The book also enables you, as a decision maker, to understand blockchain from a technical perspective and evaluate its applicability in your business. Finally, you'll get to grips with blockchain frameworks such as Hyperledger and Quorum and their usability. By the end of this book, you'll have learned about the current use cases of blockchain and be able to implement a blockchain strategy on your own.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page

AWS

A few days before the launch of Azure Blockchain Service, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Managed Blockchain, a service somewhat similar to Microsoft's, enabling the creation and management of scalable blockchains based on open source frameworks such as Hyperledger or, in the future, Ethereum. AWS is the latest cloud service provider to launch a blockchain-related offer, a startling fact regarding Amazon's ability to open up markets for its competitors and benefit from the usual first-mover advantage upon emerging technologies such as IoT or machine learning. This delay was explained by Andy Jassy, AWS's CEO, who deplored, at the end of 2017, the lack of blockchain use cases in production, before turning things around a few months later in April 2018 by launching AWS Blockchain Templates, its first blockchain product, enabling quick private...