A Developer's Guide to Blockchain, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies [Video]
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Free ChapterIntroduction
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Understanding concepts of Blockchain
- Introduction to Blockchain
- Shortcomings of current transaction system – Final
- Emergence and working of Bitcoin
- Traditional Business Network
- Tracking ownership without Blockchain Part A
- Tracking ownership without Blockchain Part B
- Key Business Benefits
- Building Trust with Blockchain
- Why is it called Blockchain
- Transaction records with Blockchain
- Key Concepts
- Participants and their roles
- Working of Blockchain-Final
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Blockchain Enabled Applications
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Installation and Coding in JS
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Transaction workflow in Blockchain
- Mining of Bitcoin
- Generating headers in Bitcoin
- Solving the Proof of Work Problem –Final
- Transaction Workflow
- Unspent Transaction Output
- Transactions on the Blockchain
- Overview of Transaction on the network
- Simple Payment Verification- Merkle Root
- Finding a transaction using Merkle Root
- Blockchain Forks
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Developing Demo Bitcoin Widget
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Developing Blockchain with NodeJS
- Understanding Dapps
- Structure of Dapps
- Blockchain Demo Flow Diagram
- Coding for block structure and plugins installation
- Logic behind hashes of block
- Coding a block structure
- Understanding and coding Genesis Block
- Initializing HTTP and P2P in blockchain
- Calculation of hash
- Building a valid blockchain
- Latest Block From Blockchain
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Style and Approach
The course has been designed from the ground up to give you a simple and easy to understand course on Blockchain. Using a jargon-free approach, you will learn what exactly Blockchain is, what are it’s different implementations, how to get started with building your own Blockchain application from scratch, and so much more!
- Publication date:
- April 2018
- Publisher
- Packt
- Duration
- 4 hours and 51 minutes
- ISBN
- 9781789344851