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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)

Introducing Ethereum

Ethereum is a blockchain-based system with special scripting functionality that allows other developers to build decentralized and distributed applications on top of it. Ethereum is mostly known among developers for the easy development of decentralized applications. There are differences between Ethereum and blockchain. The most important difference is that Ethereum blockchain can run most decentralized applications.

Ethereum was conceptualized in late 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, cryptocurrency researcher and developer. It was funded by a crowd sale between July and August 2014. Ethereum has built in Turing, a complete programming language, that is, a programming language meant to solve any computation complexity. This programming language is known as Solidity and is used to create contracts that help in creating decentralized applications on top of Ethereum...