Develop a deep understanding of the theoretical foundations of blockchain technology and learn how to write smart contracts and build decentralized applications.
Blockchain technology is the backbone of cryptocurrencies, and it has applications in finance, government, media, and many other industries. With a legacy of providing technologists with executable insights, the third edition of Mastering Blockchain is thoroughly revised and updated with the latest blockchain research, including four new chapters on consensus algorithms, Serenity (Ethereum 2.0), tokenization, and enterprise blockchains.
Apart from covering the basics, including blockchain's technical underpinnings, cryptography, and consensus protocols, this book provides you with expert knowledge on decentralization, decentralized application development on Ethereum, Bitcoin, alternative coins, smart contracts, alternative blockchains, and Hyperledger.
Furthermore, you will explore how to implement blockchain solutions beyond cryptocurrencies, such as the Internet of Things with blockchain, blockchain scalability, enterprise blockchains, and tokenization using blockchain, and the future scope of this fascinating and disruptive technology.
By the end of this book, you will have gained a thorough understanding of the various facets of blockchain technology and be comfortable applying them to diverse real-world scenarios.
What you will learn
- A Brief History of Blockchain Technology
- Blockchain Basics - Managing Digital Transactions
- The SHA-256 Hashing Algorithm
- Cryptocurrency Beyond Bitcoin
- Implications of Blockchain: Big Data, Privacy, and Personal Data
- The Human Touch: Or, The 51% Problem
- Explore research topics and the future scope of blockchain technology
Who this book is for:
If you are a technologist, business executive, student, or enthusiast who wishes to explore the fascinating world of blockchain technology, smart contracts, decentralized applications, and distributed systems then this book is for you. Basic familiarity with a beginner-level command of a programming language would be a plus.
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Montgomery, Joseph: - Joseph Montgomery is a best-selling author (over 60 books for major US publishers during the last 35 years) and journalist who writes about a wide variety of subjects. His most recent book is a down-to-earth, commonsense look at the COVID-19 epidemic, but his published work over the decades has covered subjects as diverse as digital marketing, cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency mining, sex, skiing, politics, Internet technology, and more.Joseph has a reputation for taking complicated technical subjects and breaking them down into bite-sized pieces that non-experts can digest and understand. He's a researcher and teacher, who loves to learn new subjects...and there's no better way to learn a subject than to research it and then explain it to someone else.Whether he's writing books and articles, writing and producing online courses, working with consulting clients, or explaining technical subjects to attorneys, judges, and juries (he's an experienced expert witness in litigation related to Internet technology and digital marketing)...he's a teacher, helping non-experts understand a range of subjects.
