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Blockchain By Example

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475686
Pages 528 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (3):
Bellaj Badr Bellaj Badr
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Bellaj Badr is an experienced security and software engineer who loves blockchain with a passion. Currently, he is the CTO at Mchain, a blockchain start-up that develops blockchain solutions for companies. Alongside his role as CTO, he acts as technical consultant, offering strategic and technical consulting to many companies worldwide. Aside from this, he is involved in many blockchain projects involving the establishment of new blockchain business-oriented protocols. Badr is a frequent speaker at developer conferences and is father to two angels.
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Richard Horrocks Richard Horrocks
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Richard Horrocks is a freelance Ethereum and full-stack developer based in the UK, and holds a BA and MSc in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge. He worked for many years as a technical lead for Cisco Systems, where he worked on the operating systems of carrier-grade routing hardware, before leaving the world of IT to work as an English teacher. The advent of cryptocurrency piqued his interest sufficiently to lead him back to IT, and, since 2015, he has been working with Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies. His specialist interests are cryptoeconomics and incentive layers, with a particular focus on mechanism design and token engineering. When not in front of a computer, he enjoys yoga and falling off motorbikes.
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Xun (Brian) Wu Xun (Brian) Wu
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Xun (Brian) Wu is a senior blockchain architect and consultant. With over 20 years of hands-on experience across various technologies, including Blockchain, big data, cloud, AI, systems, and infrastructure, Brian has worked on more than 50 projects in his career. He has authored nine books, which have been published by O'Reilly, Packt, and Apress, focusing on popular fields within the Blockchain industry. The titles of his books include: Learn Ethereum (First Edition), Learn Ethereum (Second Edition), Blockchain for Teens, Hands-On Smart Contract Development with Hyperledger Fabric V2, Hyperledger Cookbook, Blockchain Quick Start Guide, Security Tokens and Stablecoins Quick Start Guide, Blockchain by Example, and Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week.
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface Say Hello to Blockchain Building a Bitcoin Payment System Building Your Own Cryptocurrency Peer-to-Peer Auctions in Ethereum Tontine Game with Truffle and Drizzle Blockchain-Based Futures System Blockchains in Business Creating an ICO Distributed Storage IPFS and Swarm Supply Chain on Hyperledger Letter of Credit (LC) Hyperledger Other Books You May Enjoy

Bitcoin smart contracts

In the previous chapter, we briefly introduced the smart contract concept as self-executing programs that define a set of clauses stored on the blockchain. Although bitcoin was the first blockchain to propose a scripting language (limited for security reasons) to control funds, the smart contract concept is usually associated with the Ethereum blockchain, which provides Turing-complete smart contract languages. However, to redress the balance, many projects were initiated, such as Rootstock, Counterparty, and Ivy, to enable building and running advanced smart contracts on bitcoin. Welcome to bitcoin 2.0.

What is Rootstock?

Rootstock is a project to bring smart contracts (Turing-complete smart contracts...

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Profile icon Bellaj Badr
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Bellaj Badr is an experienced security and software engineer who loves blockchain with a passion. Currently, he is the CTO at Mchain, a blockchain start-up that develops blockchain solutions for companies. Alongside his role as CTO, he acts as technical consultant, offering strategic and technical consulting to many companies worldwide. Aside from this, he is involved in many blockchain projects involving the establishment of new blockchain business-oriented protocols. Badr is a frequent speaker at developer conferences and is father to two angels.
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Profile icon Richard Horrocks
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Richard Horrocks is a freelance Ethereum and full-stack developer based in the UK, and holds a BA and MSc in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge. He worked for many years as a technical lead for Cisco Systems, where he worked on the operating systems of carrier-grade routing hardware, before leaving the world of IT to work as an English teacher. The advent of cryptocurrency piqued his interest sufficiently to lead him back to IT, and, since 2015, he has been working with Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies. His specialist interests are cryptoeconomics and incentive layers, with a particular focus on mechanism design and token engineering. When not in front of a computer, he enjoys yoga and falling off motorbikes.
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Profile icon Xun (Brian) Wu
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Xun (Brian) Wu is a senior blockchain architect and consultant. With over 20 years of hands-on experience across various technologies, including Blockchain, big data, cloud, AI, systems, and infrastructure, Brian has worked on more than 50 projects in his career. He has authored nine books, which have been published by O'Reilly, Packt, and Apress, focusing on popular fields within the Blockchain industry. The titles of his books include: Learn Ethereum (First Edition), Learn Ethereum (Second Edition), Blockchain for Teens, Hands-On Smart Contract Development with Hyperledger Fabric V2, Hyperledger Cookbook, Blockchain Quick Start Guide, Security Tokens and Stablecoins Quick Start Guide, Blockchain by Example, and Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week.
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