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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)

Intersecting with AI and IoT

The two other major technological buzz-phrases of the moment are AI and IoT. There are a number of ways that these technologies could overlap and intersect.

Blockchain-intersecting AI

Artificial intelligence requires a vast amount of data to be effective. This is part of why so many big companies are pursuing AI projects with such fervor. Larger companies have access to more data, and are therefore able to produce superior AI results than companies that have less data. Thus, larger companies have a vast competitive advantage over small ones if they are able to leverage AI expertise effectively. Public blockchains remove this advantage because the same data is available to all. In this realm, smaller...