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Blockchain for Business 2019

By : Peter Lipovyanov
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Blockchain for Business 2019

By: Peter Lipovyanov

Overview of this book

Blockchain for Business 2019 is a comprehensive guide that enables you to bring in various blockchain functionalities to extend your existing business models and make correct fully-informed decisions. You will learn how decentralized applications are transforming numerous business sectors that are expected to play a huge role in the future. You will see how large corporations are already implementing blockchain technology now. You will then learn about the various blockchain services, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hyperledger, and others to understand their use cases in a variety of business domains. You will develop a solid fundamental understanding of blockchain architecture. Moving ahead, you will get to grips with the inner workings of blockchain, with detailed explanations of mining, decentralized consensus, cryptography, smart contracts, and many other important concepts. You will delve into a realistic view of the current state of blockchain technology, along with its issues, limitations, and potential solutions that can take it to the next level. By the end of this book, you will all be well versed in the latest innovations and developments in the emerging blockchain space.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Blockchain and the food sector

We have already mentioned several times that blockchain can provide great improvements and efficiencies to the food industry supply chain, and to pretty much any supply chain, for that matter. But since the food we consume is such an essential part of our daily lives with vital implications, and the food industry is such a big part of the global economy, we will focus on it here and analyze how blockchain technology can help deliver better outcomes for everyone. In fact, many of the food industry leaders of today have already recognized this and are launching pilot projects and initiatives to implement blockchain solutions in their business models. We'll examine some case studies of such projects here:

We'll start with a very important question. Do you like fish? Whoever does knows how important it is for fish to be delivered and served...