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Blockchain for Decision Makers

By : Romain Tormen
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Blockchain for Decision Makers

By: Romain Tormen

Overview of this book

In addition to cryptocurrencies, blockchain-based apps are being developed in different industries such as banking, supply chain, and healthcare to achieve digital transformation and enhance user experience. Blockchain is not only about Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies, but also about different technologies such as peer-to-peer networks, consensus mechanisms, and cryptography. These technologies together help sustain trustless environments in which digital value can be transferred between individuals without intermediaries. This book will help you understand the basics of blockchain such as consensus protocols, decentralized applications, and tokenization. You'll focus on how blockchain is used today in different industries and the technological challenges faced while implementing a blockchain strategy. The book also enables you, as a decision maker, to understand blockchain from a technical perspective and evaluate its applicability in your business. Finally, you'll get to grips with blockchain frameworks such as Hyperledger and Quorum and their usability. By the end of this book, you'll have learned about the current use cases of blockchain and be able to implement a blockchain strategy on your own.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Aergo

One emerging project worth mentioning is Blocko's Aergo. Founded in 2014, Blocko is a Korean blockchain company that launched a product in May 2019 called Aergo that provides a network infrastructure for organizations to build and deploy their own blockchain. Aergo aims to become the most widespread architecture for enterprise application developers and to advance its usage to a mass market thanks to a user-friendly interface combined with a simplified administration and pre-built applications. The solution is cloud-based and offers the possibility to create public, private, or semi-private blockchains. Blocko operates in the UK, South Korea, and Hong Kong and has already released 20 systems, utilized by 9 million users worldwide (https://coinjournal.net/samsung-backed-startup-blocko-launches-hybrid-blockchain-aergo-enterprise/). Designed with three different modules...