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Published inJan 2019
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Peter Lipovyanov
Peter Lipovyanov
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Peter Lipovyanov

Peter Lipovyanov is an experienced investment banker and venture investor currently focusing on blockchain projects and crypto-assets. A firm believer in the potential of blockchain technology to change the world for the better by facilitating financial inclusion across the globe and improving the efficiency of financial markets and other sectors of the economy, he has been involved in several promising blockchain projects building decentralized applications. His passion for education also led him to create a bestseller online course about the fundamental principles of blockchain technology and its business applications, which is the basis for this book.
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Next generation blockchain projects

Besides the upgrades in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other established blockchains, there are many exciting new projects coming along and trying to build the blockchain of the future.

We briefly mentioned Tezos. It is described as a generic self-amending cryptographic ledger. This means that it deploys a decentralized consensus mechanism, not only for transaction validation and updating the state of its blockchain, but also on how its protocol and network are governed and evolve over time. To do this, it plans to deploy a delegated Proof-of-Stake consensus algorithm and to split its blockchain protocol into three distinct layers:

  • A network protocol in charge of broadcasting transactions across its network
  • A transaction protocol, which defines the criteria that make a transaction valid
  • A consensus protocol that specifies how a consensus is reached...
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Peter Lipovyanov

Peter Lipovyanov is an experienced investment banker and venture investor currently focusing on blockchain projects and crypto-assets. A firm believer in the potential of blockchain technology to change the world for the better by facilitating financial inclusion across the globe and improving the efficiency of financial markets and other sectors of the economy, he has been involved in several promising blockchain projects building decentralized applications. His passion for education also led him to create a bestseller online course about the fundamental principles of blockchain technology and its business applications, which is the basis for this book.
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