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Blockchain Quick Reference

By : Mariko Amekodommo, Brenn Hill, Samanyu Chopra, Paul Valencourt
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Blockchain Quick Reference

By: Mariko Amekodommo, Brenn Hill, Samanyu Chopra, Paul Valencourt

Overview of this book

Blockchain Quick Reference takes you through the electrifying world of blockchain technology and is designed for those who want to polish their existing knowledge regarding the various pillars of the blockchain ecosystem. This book is your go-to guide, teaching you how to apply principles and ideas for making your life and business better. You will cover the architecture, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), tokens, smart contracts, and terminologies of the blockchain technology, before studying how they work. All you need is a curious mind to get started with blockchain technology. Once you have grasped the basics, you will explore components of Ethereum, such as ether tokens, transactions, and smart contracts, in order to build simple Dapps. You will then move on to learning why Solidity is used specifically for Ethereum-based projects, followed by exploring different types of blockchain with easy-to-follow examples. All this will help you tackle challenges and problems. By the end of this book, you will not only have solved current and future problems relating to blockchain technology but will also be able to build efficient decentralized applications.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Alternate Blockchains

In the previous chapters, we learned about blockchain, its structure, components, mechanism and the biggest use case of blockchain, Bitcoins. In the last chapter, we discussed cryptocurrency wallets, and their role and usage with a blockchain. Most of our discussion surrounds Bitcoins and other cryptocurrency.

The success of Bitcoin brought a lot of attention to the technology and the underlying blockchain ledger system, and the community started creating alternate cryptocurrency based on blockchain, making slight modifications to the parameters of Bitcoin, each time trying to improve in one way or another. Subsequently, various organizations started creating alternatives to blockchain by making slight modifications or changes but keeping the core definition of blockchain, that being a public ledger, intact. Some of the projects trying to create alternative...