Search icon
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
All Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Newsletters
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Blockchain for Business 2019

You're reading from  Blockchain for Business 2019

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781789956023
Pages 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Concepts
Author (1):
Peter Lipovyanov Peter Lipovyanov
Profile icon Peter Lipovyanov

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptoassets 2. A Brief History of Money 3. The Birth of Bitcoin and the Advantages of a Decentralized Payment System 4. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #1 Blockchain 5. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #2 Cryptography 6. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #3 Consensus Algorithm 7. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #4 P2P Network 8. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #5 Software Code Base 9. How Ethereum Took the Idea of Blockchain to the Next Level 10. Ethereum - A Global Platform for Decentralized Applications 11. Blockchains Focused on Specific Sectors and Use Cases 12. Corporate Blockchains 13. The Disruptive Potential of Blockchain Technology 14. Blockchain and AI 15. Current Issues and Potential Solutions to Take Blockchain to the Next Level 16. Other Books You may Enjoy

Summary

Let's recap everything we've covered about Ethereum.

We started by introducing Vitalik Buterin, the polymath visionary whiz kid, who came up with the idea of Ethereum, at the age of 19, in 2013. We learned that the key differentiating factor of Ethereum is its Turing-completeness. The Ethereum Virtual Machine and Solidity programming language enable a complete set of smart contracts that can be programmed to do pretty much any computer task or function. This powerful innovation unlocked unprecedented opportunities to create an entire universe of decentralized applications that run on the blockchain. But it also created some additional risks of software bugs and hacks, as we have seen with The DAO, Parity wallet, and multiple other mishaps. Hopefully, with time and experience, such cybersecurity threats in the blockchain space will be mitigated and greatly reduced...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $15.99/month. Cancel anytime}