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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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On-chain solutions

As we saw in the preceding sections, on-chain transactions can be pretty cumbersome. For this, we will use the following solutions.

Proof-of-Stake

In this book, we have presented two consensus algorithms: Proof-of-Work, and Proof-of-Elapsed Time:

As we learned, consensus algorithms need to be suitable for the ecosystem they support. And there is a big difference between what is suitable for an open permission-less public blockchain, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, and a private permissioned blockchain framework such as Hyperledger. The difference stems from the need for trust in the system, or lack thereof. Different levels of trust call for different consensus algorithms. Therefore Proof-of-Work is suitable...

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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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