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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)

Web3j

Web3j is a real treat for Java lovers who want to make their first steps in the new blockchain environment. It represents a lightweight Java and Android API for integration with Ethereum clients. It enables you to build a decentralized Java application easily based on Ethereum. You can find all the details about the project at their official website: https://web3j.io/.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of the following sections, you need to have a basic knowledge of Java. You should also have the following elements installed to build the application:

  • Java 8 JDK
  • Eclipse and Maven for coding and development

Setting...