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Blockchain across Oracle

By : Robert van Molken
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Blockchain across Oracle

By: Robert van Molken

Overview of this book

Blockchain across Oracle gives you the professional orientation to Blockchain that you need as an Oracle developer in today’s changing world. Written and prepared for you by Oracle Developer Champion Robert van Mölken, this book gets you up to speed with the details of the Blockchain - core concepts, how to implement Oracle’s Blockchain Cloud Service, industry implications for the Blockchain, and how the Blockchain will affect your Oracle customers. Robert van Mölken introduces you to the history and concepts of the Blockchain. You’ll really get to understand the Blockchain inside and out, as an Oracle developer or solution architect. You’ll understand the Blockchain flow, and how the hashes and chains create a new decentralised paradigm for you as an Oracle developer. You’ll gain insights into how the Blockchain affects Oracle developers and customers in this modern and disruptive era. You’ll see how the Blockchain concepts work in this new world where Assets, Transactions, Security, and Privacy, can all be sustained across a decentralized system for your customers. Then you'll find a detailed look at the cutting-edge Oracle middleware solutions. You’ll learn about Hyperledger Fabric, the opensource Blockchain framework used by Oracle as its core, and how to set up your own Oracle Blockchain Network. You’ll design and develop a smart contract, and learn how to run it on the Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service. The final part of the book looks at how the Blockchain will affect your customers across various industry sectors. By studying industry trends in the financial services sector, healthcare industry, and the transport industry, you’ll discover how the options and possibilities for you and your clients are being transformed by the Blockchain across Oracle. You’ll complete this professional orientation by looking at Blockchain trends and future directions.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
3
Blockchain 101 - Assets, Transactions, and Hashes
4
Blockchain 101 - Blocks, Chains, and Consensus
Index

Public blockchain providers


Now that we know the difference between the types of blockchain, let's go on a tour of the various blockchain providers, starting with the most widely-used and including anticipated platforms available for decentralized applications. In the public space, we will explore four platforms: Ethereum, Neo, IPFS, and Blockstack, but the number of platforms is growing fast.

Collection of public blockchain platforms

Ethereum

Ethereum is one of the longest-existing public blockchains. It is an open platform that lets you build, run, and use decentralized applications using blockchain technology. It is an open source project created by Vitalik Buterin. It is maintained by developers all over the world, so no individual truly owns Ethereum (https://ethereum.org/), rather it is maintained by the community. This decentralized platform runs applications in the form of smart contracts—applications that run exactly as programmed without censorship, fraud, or interference by a third...