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Blockchain for Decision Makers

You're reading from  Blockchain for Decision Makers

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2019
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781838552275
Pages 184 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Romain Tormen Romain Tormen
Profile icon Romain Tormen

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits About Packt Contributors Preface 1. Basics of Blockchains and the Illustration of Village Beta 2. A Technical Dive into Blockchain 3. Ethereum and Smart Contracts 4. ICOs and Tokenized Fundraising Methods 5. An Economic and Historical Approach of Blockchain 6. Blockchain Legality, Compliance, and Regulation 7. Blockchain for the Business World and Achievements 8. Future Outlook for Blockchain 9. Infrastructures and Cloud-Based Solutions 10. Defining Your Needs 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

Key takeaway

As a decision maker, if you are willing to launch a blockchain project, the choice of the infrastructure has to be carefully examined. Of course, you can develop your own blockchain from scratch, but that would take much more time and many more resources than using an already existing infrastructure. Ethereum, Bitcoin, and other public blockchains are sometimes successful enough depending on your needs. But to unlock certain industrial issues encountered in the business world, you might consider using another solution. 

Between Corda, Quorum, Hyperledger, and Aergo, the choice is quite hard. They are all enterprise-ready and open source, supported by growing communities of developers and organizations. Each solution was created to build on-purpose permissioned blockchains as an alternative to slow and hard-to-scale public infrastructures. The few differences we...

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