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Blockchain By Example

By : Bellaj Badr, Richard Horrocks, Xun (Brian) Wu
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Blockchain By Example

By: Bellaj Badr, Richard Horrocks, Xun (Brian) Wu

Overview of this book

The Blockchain is a revolution promising a new world without middlemen. Technically, it is an immutable and tamper-proof distributed ledger of all transactions across a peer-to-peer network. With this book, you will get to grips with the blockchain ecosystem to build real-world projects. This book will walk you through the process of building multiple blockchain projects with different complexity levels and hurdles. Each project will teach you just enough about the field's leading technologies, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Quorum, and Hyperledger in order to be productive from the outset. As you make your way through the chapters, you will cover the major challenges that are associated with blockchain ecosystems such as scalability, integration, and distributed file management. In the concluding chapters, you’ll learn to build blockchain projects for business, run your ICO, and even create your own cryptocurrency. Blockchain by Example also covers a range of projects such as Bitcoin payment systems, supply chains on Hyperledger, and developing a Tontine Bank Every is using Ethereum. By the end of this book, you will not only be able to tackle common issues in the blockchain ecosystem, but also design and build reliable and scalable distributed systems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Development environment

If you found Golang a difficult option to deal with when creating your Chaincode, then here is your relief. Instead of using Golang, we will discover how Hyperledger Composer can abstract Chaincode development using JavaScript and other easy-to-learn modeling languages.

Before getting started, make sure you have installed all the necessary prerequisites (except Golang) by following the instructions in the relevant section of Chapter 10, Supply Chain on Hyperledger.

Setting up the IDE

In the LC example, we will use Hyperledger Composer to work on our business network code and smart contract logic. For this, you can choose your preferred IDE, but for our example we will use Visual Studio Code. From https...