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Learn Bitcoin and Blockchain

By : Kirankalyan Kulkarni
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Learn Bitcoin and Blockchain

By: Kirankalyan Kulkarni

Overview of this book

Blockchain is a distributed database that enables permanent, transparent, and secure storage of data. Blockchain technology uses cryptography to keep data secure. Learn Bitcoin and Blockchain is the perfect entry point to the world of decentralized databases. This book will take you on a journey through the blockchain database, followed by advanced implementations of the blockchain concept. You will learn about Bitcoin basics and their technical operations. As you make your way through the book, you will gain insight into this leading technology and its implementation in the real world. You will also cover the technical foundation of blockchain and understand the fundamentals of cryptography and how they keep data secure. In the concluding chapters, you’ll get to grips with the mechanisms behind cryptocurrencies. By the end of this book, you will have learned about decentralized digital money, advanced blockchain concepts, and Bitcoin and blockchain security.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)

The impact of decentralization

In the previous sections, we looked at how decentralization works and what can be decentralized. In this section, we will look at the following topics:

  • Why are decentralization and blockchain being considered as some of the most important platforms or technologies in today's and the future world?
  • What is the possible impact this technology can bring to today's world and the futuristic vision?

The blockchain technology has been hailed as a revolutionary technology that can dramatically impact the following key factors that play a key role in the day-to-day activities across the globe:

  • Cost of trades or transactions
  • Speed of execution
  • Transparency of all transactions
  • An involvement of intermediaries
  • Security

Each of these factors has implications in almost every industry, be it banking, stock market, legal, agriculture, business, trading...