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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)

Low availability of blockchain skills

As with any new technology, the number of skilled personnel will be limited. In the case of blockchain, this natural order is made far worse because of the large and growing number of systems. Looking only at the major chains, systems are written in C, C++, Java, Scala, Golang, and Python. All of these systems have different architectures and protocols. The blockchains that have smart contracts have different contract models, contract APIs, and even completely different programming languages, such as Solidity and Serpent.

On the security front, each blockchain system has subtly different security models and challenges. The simpler the system, the easier those requirements are, but the less the blockchain will be able to do. Moreover, because of the recent surge of interest, blockchain skills are very expensive on the open market. In particular...