Chapter 1, Basics of Blockchain and the Illustration of Village Beta, aims to provide the reader with a straightforward example in terms of understanding how blockchain truly works and how it can apply to real-life situations. It provides a brief introduction as to why blockchain is a genuine matter for C-level executives and gives an illustration of how it operates.
Chapter 2, A Technical Dive into Blockchain, includes a description of the components of blockchain, as well as a description of those stakeholders who compose a blockchain network, before describing a block and its data structure, the hash, the previous hash, the nonce, and the timestamp. We'll then describe hash functions and their role in blockchain as ...