The Resource Blockchain, by Tiana Laurence
Blockchain, by Tiana Laurence
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Resource Information
The item Blockchain, by Tiana Laurence represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Mid-Continent Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- Blockchain is the techno-magic that enables cryptocurrencies and impacts the worlds of finance, insurance, supply chain management, and others. But you don't need to be a programmer or financial wizard to understand blockchain; you just need this book! It explains blockchain basics, smart contracts, and cryptocurrencies, with real-world examples showing how blockchains functions and where they ad value. Learn how to interact with a blockchain, tour key blockchains, see how they disrupt huge industries, and much more
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 2nd edition.
- Extent
- xii, 236 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- What blockchains do
- p. 58
- Ethereum: The Open-Source World Wide Computer
- p. 59
- Decentralized applications: Welcome to the future
- p. 60
- Power of decentralized autonomous organizations
- p. 61
- Hacking a Blockchain
- p. 64
- Understanding smart contracts
- p. 8
- p. 64
- Discovering the cryptocurrency Ether
- p. 65
- Getting Up and Running on Ethereum
- p. 65
- Mining for ether
- p. 66
- Setting up your Ethereum wallet
- p. 66
- Building Your First Decentralized Autonomous Organization
- Why blockchains matter
- p. 67
- Test net and congress
- p. 68
- Governance and voting
- p. 69
- Uncovering the Future of DAOs
- p. 69
- Putting money in a DAO
- p. 70
- Building smarter smart contracts
- p. 9
- p. 70
- Finding bugs in the system
- p. 71
- Creating Your Own ERC20 Tokens
- p. 71
- Seeing up your GitHub account
- p. 71
- Requesting KETH on the Gitter Faucet
- p. 72
- Creating your tokens
- Structure of Blockchains
- p. 73
- Chapter 6
- Riding the Waves Blockchain
- p. 77
- Seeing How the Waves Blockchain Differs from Other Blockchains
- p. 78
- Unleashing the Full Power of Waves
- p. 79
- Setting up your Waves wallet
- p. 80
- p. 10
- Backing up your wallet
- p. 80
- Uncovering Your Wallets Features
- p. 81
- Transferring crypto assets
- p. 82
- Using a decentralized exchange
- p. 82
- Creating and Leasing Out Your Own Cryptocurrency
- p. 85
- Blockchain Applications
- Chapter 7
- Finding the Factom Blockchain
- p. 87
- A Matter of Trust
- p. 88
- Purpose of the Factom blockchain: Publishing anything
- p. 89
- Incentives of federation
- p. 90
- Building on Factom
- p. 12
- p. 93
- Authenticating documents and building identities using APIs
- p. 93
- Getting to know the Factoid: Not a normal cryptocurrency
- p. 93
- Anchoring your application
- p. 94
- Publishing on Factom
- p. 94
- Building transparency in the mortgage industry
- Blockchain Life Cycle
- p. 96
- Verifying physical documents: dLoc with Factom
- p. 98
- Chapter 8
- Examining the EOS Blockchain
- p. 101
- Getting Familiar with EOS
- p. 102
- New mining versus old mining
- p. 104
- p. 12
- The 21 block producers
- p. 104
- Setting Up EOS Voting for Block Producers
- p. 105
- Setting up the Greymass voting tool
- p. 106
- Voting for a block producer
- p. 107
- Introducing the EOS Decentralized Application Collection
- p. 108
- Part 1
- Consensus: The Driving Force of Blockchains
- Everipedia: The next-generation encyclopedia
- p. 108
- Decentralized EOS games
- p. 109
- Part 3
- Powerful Blockchain Platforms
- p. 111
- Chapter 9
- Getting Your Hands on Hyperledger
- p. 113
- p. 13
- Getting to Know Hyperiedger
- p. 114
- Identifying Key Hyperledger Projects
- p. 115
- Focusing on Fabric
- p. 115
- Investigating the Iroha project
- p. 115
- Diving into Sawtooth Lake
- p. 117
- Blockchains in Use
- Building Your System in Fabric
- p. 119
- Building asset tracking with Hyperledger Composer
- p. 119
- Working with Smart Contracts on Hyperledger
- p. 123
- Step 1
- Setting up an auction network
- p. 123
- Step 2
- p. 15
- Setting up auction windows
- p. 124
- Step 3
- Creating an auctioneer
- p. 124
- Step 4
- Creating two participants
- p. 124
- Step 5
- Creating a new asset
- Current blockchain uses
- p. 125
- Step 6
- Creating a new listing
- p. 126
- Step 7
- Auctioning off the car
- p. 127
- Step 8
- Closing your auction
- p. 128
- p. 16
- Chapter 10
- Applying Microsoft Azure
- p. 129
- Bletchley: The Modular Blockchain Fabric
- p. 129
- Cryptlets for encrypting and authenticating
- p. 130
- Utility and Contract Cryptlets and CrytoDelegates
- p. 132
- Building in the Azure Ecosystem
- Future blockchain applications
- p. 133
- Getting Started with Chain on Azure
- p. 135
- Installing Chain's distributed ledger
- p. 135
- Coating your own private network
- p. 135
- Using financial services on Azure's Chain
- p. 136
- Deploying Blockchain Tools on Azure
- p. 16
- p. 136
- Exploring Ethereum on Azure
- p. 137
- Cortana: Your analytics machine learning tool
- p. 137
- Visualizing your data with Power Bi
- p. 138
- Managing your access on Azure's Active Directory
- p. 138
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 2
- Getting Busy on IBM Blumix
- p. 139
- Business Blockchain on Biuemix
- p. 140
- Your isolated environment
- p. 140
- Bluemix use cases
- p. 141
- Watson's Smart Blockchain
- p. 142
- Picking a Blockchain
- Building Your Starter Network on Big Blue
- p. 144
- Part 4
- Industry Impacts
- p. 147
- Chapter 12
- Financial Technology
- p. 149
- Hauling Out Your Crystal Bali: Future Banking Trends
- p. 149
- Getting Started with Blockchain
- p. 19
- Moving money faster: Across borders and more
- p. 151
- Creating permanent history
- p. 152
- Going international: Global Financial Products
- p. 153
- Border-free payroll
- p. 155
- Faster and better trade
- p. 155
- Where Blockchains Add Substance
- Guaranteed payments
- p. 156
- Micropayments-The new nature of transactions
- p. 156
- Squeezing Out Fraud
- p. 157
- Chapter 13
- Real Estate
- p. 159
- Eliminating Title Insurance
- p. 19
- p. 160
- Protected industries
- p. 160
- Consumers and Fannie Mae
- p. 162
- Mortgages in the Blockchain World
- p. 162
- Reducing your origination costs
- p. 163
- Knowing your last-known document
- Determining your needs
- p. 163
- Forecasting Regional Trends
- p. 164
- United States and Europe: Infrastructure congestion
- p. 165
- China: First out of the gate
- p. 166
- Developing world: Roadblocks to blockchain
- p. 166
- Chapter 14
- p. 20
- Insurance
- p. 169
- Precisely Tailoring Coverage
- p. 169
- Insuring the individual
- p. 170
- New world of micro insurance
- p. 171
- Witnessing for You: The Internet of Things
- p. 172
- Defining your goal
- IoT projects in insurance
- p. 173
- Implications of actionable big data
- p. 173
- Taking Out the Third Party in Insurance
- p. 174
- Decentralized security
- p. 174
- Crowdfunded coverage
- p. 175
- p. 21
- Implications of DAO insurance
- p. 175
- Chapter 15
- Government
- p. 177
- Smart Cities of Asia
- p. 177
- Singapore satellite cities in India
- p. 179
- China's big data problem
- Choosing a Solution
- p. 180
- Battle for the Financial Capital of the World
- p. 181
- London's early foresight
- p. 182
- Regulatory sandbox of Singapore
- p. 183
- Dubai 2020 initiative
- p. 184
- Bitlicense regulatory framework: New York City
- p. 22
- p. 185
- Friendly legal structure of Malta
- p. 186
- Securing the World's Borders
- p. 187
- Department of Homeland Security and the identity of things
- p. 188
- Passports of the future
- p. 188
- New feeder document
- Drawing a blockchain decision tree
- p. 188
- Chapter 16
- Other Industries
- p. 191
- Lean Governments
- p. 191
- Singapore's Smart Nation project
- p. 192
- Estonia's e-Residency
- p. 193
- p. 5
- p. 23
- Better notarization in China
- p. 194
- Trust Layer for the internet
- p. 194
- Spam-free email
- p. 195
- Owning your identity
- p. 196
- Oracle of the Blockchain
- p. 196
- Making a plan
- Trusted authorship
- p. 197
- Intellectual property rights
- p. 197
- Chapter 17
- Ten (Or So) Free Blockachin Resources
- p. 201
- Ethereum
- p. 201
- DigiKnow
- p. 24
- p. 202
- Blockchain University
- p. 202
- Bitcoin Core
- p. 202
- Blockchain Alliance
- p. 202
- Multichain Blog
- p. 203
- HiveMind
- Chapter 3
- p. 203
- Smith + Crown
- p. 204
- Unchained and Unconfirmed Podcasts
- p. 204
- Chapter 18
- Ten Rules to Never Break on the Blockchain
- p. 205
- Don't Use Cryptocurrency or Blockchains to Skirt the Law
- p. 205
- Getting Your Hands on Blockchain
- Keep Your Contracts as Simple as Possible
- p. 206
- Publish with Great Caution
- p. 207
- Back Up, Back Up, Back Up Your Private Keys
- p. 207
- Triple-Check the Address Before Sending Currency
- p. 209
- Take Care When Using Exchanges
- p. 209
- p. 27
- Beware Wi-Fi
- p. 210
- Identify Your Blockchain Dev
- p. 210
- Don't Get Suckered
- p. 210
- Don't Trade Tokens Unless You Know What You're Doing
- p. 211
- Chapter 19
- Ten Top Blockchain Projects
- Diving into Blockchain Technology
- p. 213
- R3 Consortium
- p. 213
- T ZERO: Overstocking the Stock Market
- p. 215
- Blockstream's Distributed Systems
- p. 215
- MadHive
- p. 216
- Blockdaemon
- p. 28
- p. 217
- Gemini Dollar and Exchange
- p. 217
- Decentraland
- p. 218
- TransferWise
- p. 218
- Lightning Network
- p. 219
- Bitcoin Cash
- Creating a secure environment
- p. 219
- p. 28
- Chapter 1
- Buying your first Bitcoin
- p. 31
- Securing and Exchanging Your Cryptocurrency
- p. 32
- Downloading Jaxx
- p. 33
- Securing your Jaxx wallet
- p. 33
- Transferring Bitcoin to Jaxx
- p. 34
- Introducing Blockchain
- Trading Bitcoin for Ether
- p. 35
- Loading up your MetaMask account
- p. 35
- Setting up a CryptoKitties account
- p. 36
- Building a Private Blockchain with Docker and Ethereum
- p. 38
- Preparing your computer
- p. 39
- p. 7
- Building your blockchain
- p. 41
- Part 2
- Developing Your Knowledge
- p. 43
- Chapter 4
- Beholding the Bitcoin Blockchain
- p. 45
- Getting a Brief History of the Bitcoin Blockchain
- p. 46
- Beginning at the Beginning: What Blockchains Are
- New Bitcoin: Bitcoin Cash
- p. 48
- Debunking Some Common Bitcoin Misconceptions
- p. 50
- Bitcoin: The New Wild West
- p. 51
- Fake sites
- p. 52
- No, you first!
- p. 52
- p. 7
- Get-rich-quick schemes
- p. 52
- Mining for Bitcoins
- p. 53
- Making Your First Paper Wallet
- p. 54
- Chapter 5
- Encountering the Ethereum Blockchain
- p. 57
- Exploring the Brief History of Ethereum
- Isbn
- 9781119555018
- Label
- Blockchain
- Title
- Blockchain
- Statement of responsibility
- by Tiana Laurence
- Title variation
- Blockchain for dummies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Blockchain is the techno-magic that enables cryptocurrencies and impacts the worlds of finance, insurance, supply chain management, and others. But you don't need to be a programmer or financial wizard to understand blockchain; you just need this book! It explains blockchain basics, smart contracts, and cryptocurrencies, with real-world examples showing how blockchains functions and where they ad value. Learn how to interact with a blockchain, tour key blockchains, see how they disrupt huge industries, and much more
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Laurence, Tiana
- Dewey number
- 332.178
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HG1710
- LC item number
- .L38 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Series statement
- --For dummies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Blockchains (Databases)
- Digital currency
- Bitcoin
- Data encryption (Computer science)
- Electronic commerce
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Blockchain, by Tiana Laurence
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- What blockchains do
- p. 58
- Ethereum: The Open-Source World Wide Computer
- p. 59
- Decentralized applications: Welcome to the future
- p. 60
- Power of decentralized autonomous organizations
- p. 61
- Hacking a Blockchain
- p. 64
- Understanding smart contracts
- p. 8
- p. 64
- Discovering the cryptocurrency Ether
- p. 65
- Getting Up and Running on Ethereum
- p. 65
- Mining for ether
- p. 66
- Setting up your Ethereum wallet
- p. 66
- Building Your First Decentralized Autonomous Organization
- Why blockchains matter
- p. 67
- Test net and congress
- p. 68
- Governance and voting
- p. 69
- Uncovering the Future of DAOs
- p. 69
- Putting money in a DAO
- p. 70
- Building smarter smart contracts
- p. 9
- p. 70
- Finding bugs in the system
- p. 71
- Creating Your Own ERC20 Tokens
- p. 71
- Seeing up your GitHub account
- p. 71
- Requesting KETH on the Gitter Faucet
- p. 72
- Creating your tokens
- Structure of Blockchains
- p. 73
- Chapter 6
- Riding the Waves Blockchain
- p. 77
- Seeing How the Waves Blockchain Differs from Other Blockchains
- p. 78
- Unleashing the Full Power of Waves
- p. 79
- Setting up your Waves wallet
- p. 80
- p. 10
- Backing up your wallet
- p. 80
- Uncovering Your Wallets Features
- p. 81
- Transferring crypto assets
- p. 82
- Using a decentralized exchange
- p. 82
- Creating and Leasing Out Your Own Cryptocurrency
- p. 85
- Blockchain Applications
- Chapter 7
- Finding the Factom Blockchain
- p. 87
- A Matter of Trust
- p. 88
- Purpose of the Factom blockchain: Publishing anything
- p. 89
- Incentives of federation
- p. 90
- Building on Factom
- p. 12
- p. 93
- Authenticating documents and building identities using APIs
- p. 93
- Getting to know the Factoid: Not a normal cryptocurrency
- p. 93
- Anchoring your application
- p. 94
- Publishing on Factom
- p. 94
- Building transparency in the mortgage industry
- Blockchain Life Cycle
- p. 96
- Verifying physical documents: dLoc with Factom
- p. 98
- Chapter 8
- Examining the EOS Blockchain
- p. 101
- Getting Familiar with EOS
- p. 102
- New mining versus old mining
- p. 104
- p. 12
- The 21 block producers
- p. 104
- Setting Up EOS Voting for Block Producers
- p. 105
- Setting up the Greymass voting tool
- p. 106
- Voting for a block producer
- p. 107
- Introducing the EOS Decentralized Application Collection
- p. 108
- Part 1
- Consensus: The Driving Force of Blockchains
- Everipedia: The next-generation encyclopedia
- p. 108
- Decentralized EOS games
- p. 109
- Part 3
- Powerful Blockchain Platforms
- p. 111
- Chapter 9
- Getting Your Hands on Hyperledger
- p. 113
- p. 13
- Getting to Know Hyperiedger
- p. 114
- Identifying Key Hyperledger Projects
- p. 115
- Focusing on Fabric
- p. 115
- Investigating the Iroha project
- p. 115
- Diving into Sawtooth Lake
- p. 117
- Blockchains in Use
- Building Your System in Fabric
- p. 119
- Building asset tracking with Hyperledger Composer
- p. 119
- Working with Smart Contracts on Hyperledger
- p. 123
- Step 1
- Setting up an auction network
- p. 123
- Step 2
- p. 15
- Setting up auction windows
- p. 124
- Step 3
- Creating an auctioneer
- p. 124
- Step 4
- Creating two participants
- p. 124
- Step 5
- Creating a new asset
- Current blockchain uses
- p. 125
- Step 6
- Creating a new listing
- p. 126
- Step 7
- Auctioning off the car
- p. 127
- Step 8
- Closing your auction
- p. 128
- p. 16
- Chapter 10
- Applying Microsoft Azure
- p. 129
- Bletchley: The Modular Blockchain Fabric
- p. 129
- Cryptlets for encrypting and authenticating
- p. 130
- Utility and Contract Cryptlets and CrytoDelegates
- p. 132
- Building in the Azure Ecosystem
- Future blockchain applications
- p. 133
- Getting Started with Chain on Azure
- p. 135
- Installing Chain's distributed ledger
- p. 135
- Coating your own private network
- p. 135
- Using financial services on Azure's Chain
- p. 136
- Deploying Blockchain Tools on Azure
- p. 16
- p. 136
- Exploring Ethereum on Azure
- p. 137
- Cortana: Your analytics machine learning tool
- p. 137
- Visualizing your data with Power Bi
- p. 138
- Managing your access on Azure's Active Directory
- p. 138
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 2
- Getting Busy on IBM Blumix
- p. 139
- Business Blockchain on Biuemix
- p. 140
- Your isolated environment
- p. 140
- Bluemix use cases
- p. 141
- Watson's Smart Blockchain
- p. 142
- Picking a Blockchain
- Building Your Starter Network on Big Blue
- p. 144
- Part 4
- Industry Impacts
- p. 147
- Chapter 12
- Financial Technology
- p. 149
- Hauling Out Your Crystal Bali: Future Banking Trends
- p. 149
- Getting Started with Blockchain
- p. 19
- Moving money faster: Across borders and more
- p. 151
- Creating permanent history
- p. 152
- Going international: Global Financial Products
- p. 153
- Border-free payroll
- p. 155
- Faster and better trade
- p. 155
- Where Blockchains Add Substance
- Guaranteed payments
- p. 156
- Micropayments-The new nature of transactions
- p. 156
- Squeezing Out Fraud
- p. 157
- Chapter 13
- Real Estate
- p. 159
- Eliminating Title Insurance
- p. 19
- p. 160
- Protected industries
- p. 160
- Consumers and Fannie Mae
- p. 162
- Mortgages in the Blockchain World
- p. 162
- Reducing your origination costs
- p. 163
- Knowing your last-known document
- Determining your needs
- p. 163
- Forecasting Regional Trends
- p. 164
- United States and Europe: Infrastructure congestion
- p. 165
- China: First out of the gate
- p. 166
- Developing world: Roadblocks to blockchain
- p. 166
- Chapter 14
- p. 20
- Insurance
- p. 169
- Precisely Tailoring Coverage
- p. 169
- Insuring the individual
- p. 170
- New world of micro insurance
- p. 171
- Witnessing for You: The Internet of Things
- p. 172
- Defining your goal
- IoT projects in insurance
- p. 173
- Implications of actionable big data
- p. 173
- Taking Out the Third Party in Insurance
- p. 174
- Decentralized security
- p. 174
- Crowdfunded coverage
- p. 175
- p. 21
- Implications of DAO insurance
- p. 175
- Chapter 15
- Government
- p. 177
- Smart Cities of Asia
- p. 177
- Singapore satellite cities in India
- p. 179
- China's big data problem
- Choosing a Solution
- p. 180
- Battle for the Financial Capital of the World
- p. 181
- London's early foresight
- p. 182
- Regulatory sandbox of Singapore
- p. 183
- Dubai 2020 initiative
- p. 184
- Bitlicense regulatory framework: New York City
- p. 22
- p. 185
- Friendly legal structure of Malta
- p. 186
- Securing the World's Borders
- p. 187
- Department of Homeland Security and the identity of things
- p. 188
- Passports of the future
- p. 188
- New feeder document
- Drawing a blockchain decision tree
- p. 188
- Chapter 16
- Other Industries
- p. 191
- Lean Governments
- p. 191
- Singapore's Smart Nation project
- p. 192
- Estonia's e-Residency
- p. 193
- p. 5
- p. 23
- Better notarization in China
- p. 194
- Trust Layer for the internet
- p. 194
- Spam-free email
- p. 195
- Owning your identity
- p. 196
- Oracle of the Blockchain
- p. 196
- Making a plan
- Trusted authorship
- p. 197
- Intellectual property rights
- p. 197
- Chapter 17
- Ten (Or So) Free Blockachin Resources
- p. 201
- Ethereum
- p. 201
- DigiKnow
- p. 24
- p. 202
- Blockchain University
- p. 202
- Bitcoin Core
- p. 202
- Blockchain Alliance
- p. 202
- Multichain Blog
- p. 203
- HiveMind
- Chapter 3
- p. 203
- Smith + Crown
- p. 204
- Unchained and Unconfirmed Podcasts
- p. 204
- Chapter 18
- Ten Rules to Never Break on the Blockchain
- p. 205
- Don't Use Cryptocurrency or Blockchains to Skirt the Law
- p. 205
- Getting Your Hands on Blockchain
- Keep Your Contracts as Simple as Possible
- p. 206
- Publish with Great Caution
- p. 207
- Back Up, Back Up, Back Up Your Private Keys
- p. 207
- Triple-Check the Address Before Sending Currency
- p. 209
- Take Care When Using Exchanges
- p. 209
- p. 27
- Beware Wi-Fi
- p. 210
- Identify Your Blockchain Dev
- p. 210
- Don't Get Suckered
- p. 210
- Don't Trade Tokens Unless You Know What You're Doing
- p. 211
- Chapter 19
- Ten Top Blockchain Projects
- Diving into Blockchain Technology
- p. 213
- R3 Consortium
- p. 213
- T ZERO: Overstocking the Stock Market
- p. 215
- Blockstream's Distributed Systems
- p. 215
- MadHive
- p. 216
- Blockdaemon
- p. 28
- p. 217
- Gemini Dollar and Exchange
- p. 217
- Decentraland
- p. 218
- TransferWise
- p. 218
- Lightning Network
- p. 219
- Bitcoin Cash
- Creating a secure environment
- p. 219
- p. 28
- Chapter 1
- Buying your first Bitcoin
- p. 31
- Securing and Exchanging Your Cryptocurrency
- p. 32
- Downloading Jaxx
- p. 33
- Securing your Jaxx wallet
- p. 33
- Transferring Bitcoin to Jaxx
- p. 34
- Introducing Blockchain
- Trading Bitcoin for Ether
- p. 35
- Loading up your MetaMask account
- p. 35
- Setting up a CryptoKitties account
- p. 36
- Building a Private Blockchain with Docker and Ethereum
- p. 38
- Preparing your computer
- p. 39
- p. 7
- Building your blockchain
- p. 41
- Part 2
- Developing Your Knowledge
- p. 43
- Chapter 4
- Beholding the Bitcoin Blockchain
- p. 45
- Getting a Brief History of the Bitcoin Blockchain
- p. 46
- Beginning at the Beginning: What Blockchains Are
- New Bitcoin: Bitcoin Cash
- p. 48
- Debunking Some Common Bitcoin Misconceptions
- p. 50
- Bitcoin: The New Wild West
- p. 51
- Fake sites
- p. 52
- No, you first!
- p. 52
- p. 7
- Get-rich-quick schemes
- p. 52
- Mining for Bitcoins
- p. 53
- Making Your First Paper Wallet
- p. 54
- Chapter 5
- Encountering the Ethereum Blockchain
- p. 57
- Exploring the Brief History of Ethereum
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- 24 cm.
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- 2nd edition.
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- xii, 236 pages
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- Label
- Blockchain, by Tiana Laurence
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- What blockchains do
- p. 58
- Ethereum: The Open-Source World Wide Computer
- p. 59
- Decentralized applications: Welcome to the future
- p. 60
- Power of decentralized autonomous organizations
- p. 61
- Hacking a Blockchain
- p. 64
- Understanding smart contracts
- p. 8
- p. 64
- Discovering the cryptocurrency Ether
- p. 65
- Getting Up and Running on Ethereum
- p. 65
- Mining for ether
- p. 66
- Setting up your Ethereum wallet
- p. 66
- Building Your First Decentralized Autonomous Organization
- Why blockchains matter
- p. 67
- Test net and congress
- p. 68
- Governance and voting
- p. 69
- Uncovering the Future of DAOs
- p. 69
- Putting money in a DAO
- p. 70
- Building smarter smart contracts
- p. 9
- p. 70
- Finding bugs in the system
- p. 71
- Creating Your Own ERC20 Tokens
- p. 71
- Seeing up your GitHub account
- p. 71
- Requesting KETH on the Gitter Faucet
- p. 72
- Creating your tokens
- Structure of Blockchains
- p. 73
- Chapter 6
- Riding the Waves Blockchain
- p. 77
- Seeing How the Waves Blockchain Differs from Other Blockchains
- p. 78
- Unleashing the Full Power of Waves
- p. 79
- Setting up your Waves wallet
- p. 80
- p. 10
- Backing up your wallet
- p. 80
- Uncovering Your Wallets Features
- p. 81
- Transferring crypto assets
- p. 82
- Using a decentralized exchange
- p. 82
- Creating and Leasing Out Your Own Cryptocurrency
- p. 85
- Blockchain Applications
- Chapter 7
- Finding the Factom Blockchain
- p. 87
- A Matter of Trust
- p. 88
- Purpose of the Factom blockchain: Publishing anything
- p. 89
- Incentives of federation
- p. 90
- Building on Factom
- p. 12
- p. 93
- Authenticating documents and building identities using APIs
- p. 93
- Getting to know the Factoid: Not a normal cryptocurrency
- p. 93
- Anchoring your application
- p. 94
- Publishing on Factom
- p. 94
- Building transparency in the mortgage industry
- Blockchain Life Cycle
- p. 96
- Verifying physical documents: dLoc with Factom
- p. 98
- Chapter 8
- Examining the EOS Blockchain
- p. 101
- Getting Familiar with EOS
- p. 102
- New mining versus old mining
- p. 104
- p. 12
- The 21 block producers
- p. 104
- Setting Up EOS Voting for Block Producers
- p. 105
- Setting up the Greymass voting tool
- p. 106
- Voting for a block producer
- p. 107
- Introducing the EOS Decentralized Application Collection
- p. 108
- Part 1
- Consensus: The Driving Force of Blockchains
- Everipedia: The next-generation encyclopedia
- p. 108
- Decentralized EOS games
- p. 109
- Part 3
- Powerful Blockchain Platforms
- p. 111
- Chapter 9
- Getting Your Hands on Hyperledger
- p. 113
- p. 13
- Getting to Know Hyperiedger
- p. 114
- Identifying Key Hyperledger Projects
- p. 115
- Focusing on Fabric
- p. 115
- Investigating the Iroha project
- p. 115
- Diving into Sawtooth Lake
- p. 117
- Blockchains in Use
- Building Your System in Fabric
- p. 119
- Building asset tracking with Hyperledger Composer
- p. 119
- Working with Smart Contracts on Hyperledger
- p. 123
- Step 1
- Setting up an auction network
- p. 123
- Step 2
- p. 15
- Setting up auction windows
- p. 124
- Step 3
- Creating an auctioneer
- p. 124
- Step 4
- Creating two participants
- p. 124
- Step 5
- Creating a new asset
- Current blockchain uses
- p. 125
- Step 6
- Creating a new listing
- p. 126
- Step 7
- Auctioning off the car
- p. 127
- Step 8
- Closing your auction
- p. 128
- p. 16
- Chapter 10
- Applying Microsoft Azure
- p. 129
- Bletchley: The Modular Blockchain Fabric
- p. 129
- Cryptlets for encrypting and authenticating
- p. 130
- Utility and Contract Cryptlets and CrytoDelegates
- p. 132
- Building in the Azure Ecosystem
- Future blockchain applications
- p. 133
- Getting Started with Chain on Azure
- p. 135
- Installing Chain's distributed ledger
- p. 135
- Coating your own private network
- p. 135
- Using financial services on Azure's Chain
- p. 136
- Deploying Blockchain Tools on Azure
- p. 16
- p. 136
- Exploring Ethereum on Azure
- p. 137
- Cortana: Your analytics machine learning tool
- p. 137
- Visualizing your data with Power Bi
- p. 138
- Managing your access on Azure's Active Directory
- p. 138
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 2
- Getting Busy on IBM Blumix
- p. 139
- Business Blockchain on Biuemix
- p. 140
- Your isolated environment
- p. 140
- Bluemix use cases
- p. 141
- Watson's Smart Blockchain
- p. 142
- Picking a Blockchain
- Building Your Starter Network on Big Blue
- p. 144
- Part 4
- Industry Impacts
- p. 147
- Chapter 12
- Financial Technology
- p. 149
- Hauling Out Your Crystal Bali: Future Banking Trends
- p. 149
- Getting Started with Blockchain
- p. 19
- Moving money faster: Across borders and more
- p. 151
- Creating permanent history
- p. 152
- Going international: Global Financial Products
- p. 153
- Border-free payroll
- p. 155
- Faster and better trade
- p. 155
- Where Blockchains Add Substance
- Guaranteed payments
- p. 156
- Micropayments-The new nature of transactions
- p. 156
- Squeezing Out Fraud
- p. 157
- Chapter 13
- Real Estate
- p. 159
- Eliminating Title Insurance
- p. 19
- p. 160
- Protected industries
- p. 160
- Consumers and Fannie Mae
- p. 162
- Mortgages in the Blockchain World
- p. 162
- Reducing your origination costs
- p. 163
- Knowing your last-known document
- Determining your needs
- p. 163
- Forecasting Regional Trends
- p. 164
- United States and Europe: Infrastructure congestion
- p. 165
- China: First out of the gate
- p. 166
- Developing world: Roadblocks to blockchain
- p. 166
- Chapter 14
- p. 20
- Insurance
- p. 169
- Precisely Tailoring Coverage
- p. 169
- Insuring the individual
- p. 170
- New world of micro insurance
- p. 171
- Witnessing for You: The Internet of Things
- p. 172
- Defining your goal
- IoT projects in insurance
- p. 173
- Implications of actionable big data
- p. 173
- Taking Out the Third Party in Insurance
- p. 174
- Decentralized security
- p. 174
- Crowdfunded coverage
- p. 175
- p. 21
- Implications of DAO insurance
- p. 175
- Chapter 15
- Government
- p. 177
- Smart Cities of Asia
- p. 177
- Singapore satellite cities in India
- p. 179
- China's big data problem
- Choosing a Solution
- p. 180
- Battle for the Financial Capital of the World
- p. 181
- London's early foresight
- p. 182
- Regulatory sandbox of Singapore
- p. 183
- Dubai 2020 initiative
- p. 184
- Bitlicense regulatory framework: New York City
- p. 22
- p. 185
- Friendly legal structure of Malta
- p. 186
- Securing the World's Borders
- p. 187
- Department of Homeland Security and the identity of things
- p. 188
- Passports of the future
- p. 188
- New feeder document
- Drawing a blockchain decision tree
- p. 188
- Chapter 16
- Other Industries
- p. 191
- Lean Governments
- p. 191
- Singapore's Smart Nation project
- p. 192
- Estonia's e-Residency
- p. 193
- p. 5
- p. 23
- Better notarization in China
- p. 194
- Trust Layer for the internet
- p. 194
- Spam-free email
- p. 195
- Owning your identity
- p. 196
- Oracle of the Blockchain
- p. 196
- Making a plan
- Trusted authorship
- p. 197
- Intellectual property rights
- p. 197
- Chapter 17
- Ten (Or So) Free Blockachin Resources
- p. 201
- Ethereum
- p. 201
- DigiKnow
- p. 24
- p. 202
- Blockchain University
- p. 202
- Bitcoin Core
- p. 202
- Blockchain Alliance
- p. 202
- Multichain Blog
- p. 203
- HiveMind
- Chapter 3
- p. 203
- Smith + Crown
- p. 204
- Unchained and Unconfirmed Podcasts
- p. 204
- Chapter 18
- Ten Rules to Never Break on the Blockchain
- p. 205
- Don't Use Cryptocurrency or Blockchains to Skirt the Law
- p. 205
- Getting Your Hands on Blockchain
- Keep Your Contracts as Simple as Possible
- p. 206
- Publish with Great Caution
- p. 207
- Back Up, Back Up, Back Up Your Private Keys
- p. 207
- Triple-Check the Address Before Sending Currency
- p. 209
- Take Care When Using Exchanges
- p. 209
- p. 27
- Beware Wi-Fi
- p. 210
- Identify Your Blockchain Dev
- p. 210
- Don't Get Suckered
- p. 210
- Don't Trade Tokens Unless You Know What You're Doing
- p. 211
- Chapter 19
- Ten Top Blockchain Projects
- Diving into Blockchain Technology
- p. 213
- R3 Consortium
- p. 213
- T ZERO: Overstocking the Stock Market
- p. 215
- Blockstream's Distributed Systems
- p. 215
- MadHive
- p. 216
- Blockdaemon
- p. 28
- p. 217
- Gemini Dollar and Exchange
- p. 217
- Decentraland
- p. 218
- TransferWise
- p. 218
- Lightning Network
- p. 219
- Bitcoin Cash
- Creating a secure environment
- p. 219
- p. 28
- Chapter 1
- Buying your first Bitcoin
- p. 31
- Securing and Exchanging Your Cryptocurrency
- p. 32
- Downloading Jaxx
- p. 33
- Securing your Jaxx wallet
- p. 33
- Transferring Bitcoin to Jaxx
- p. 34
- Introducing Blockchain
- Trading Bitcoin for Ether
- p. 35
- Loading up your MetaMask account
- p. 35
- Setting up a CryptoKitties account
- p. 36
- Building a Private Blockchain with Docker and Ethereum
- p. 38
- Preparing your computer
- p. 39
- p. 7
- Building your blockchain
- p. 41
- Part 2
- Developing Your Knowledge
- p. 43
- Chapter 4
- Beholding the Bitcoin Blockchain
- p. 45
- Getting a Brief History of the Bitcoin Blockchain
- p. 46
- Beginning at the Beginning: What Blockchains Are
- New Bitcoin: Bitcoin Cash
- p. 48
- Debunking Some Common Bitcoin Misconceptions
- p. 50
- Bitcoin: The New Wild West
- p. 51
- Fake sites
- p. 52
- No, you first!
- p. 52
- p. 7
- Get-rich-quick schemes
- p. 52
- Mining for Bitcoins
- p. 53
- Making Your First Paper Wallet
- p. 54
- Chapter 5
- Encountering the Ethereum Blockchain
- p. 57
- Exploring the Brief History of Ethereum
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