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Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Developing Business, Law, and Technology Solutions
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Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Developing Business, Law, and Technology Solutions

by Joseph J. Bambara, Paul R. Allen, Kedar Iyer, Rene Madsen, Solomon Lederer, Michael Wuehler
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
9h 56m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Developing Business, Law, and Technology Solutions

8   Private Blockchain Platforms and Use Cases

Blockchain is a peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology, which makes it easier to create a more cost-efficient network with no central point of control. This is in contrast to the world where members of a business ecosystem maintain their own ledger or systems of record (SOR). These separate ledgers are continually being reconciled with one another in an inefficient, expensive, and often nonstandard way. Over time, these separate ledgers have been duplicated many times within each member’s datacenters. It has gotten to the point where data governance, testing, release management, and in effect the complete software development life cycle (SDLC) is always hampered and more or less broken or damaged. ...

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