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Blockchain in Action
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Blockchain in Action

by Bina Ramamurthy
October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h 51m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Blockchain in Action

1 Blockchain basics

This chapter covers

  • Understanding blockchain

  • Discovering decentralized system infrastructure

  • Exploring distributed ledger technology

  • Analyzing trust-enabling protocol

  • Motivating blockchain applications with real-world scenarios

In the latter part of 2008 and early 2009, centralized systems of the world’s financial markets--enabled by large intermediaries such as banks and investment firms--failed and began to crumble. Trust in these systems eroded, and panic set in all over the world with the collapse of financial markets. It was at this juncture that a mysterious person or persons introduced to the world a working model of a peer-to-peer decentralized digital currency system (with no central authority or administration) ...

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