Ethereum For Dummies

Introduction

Blockchain technology is one of the most talked about disruptive technologies of the decade, and Ethereum is the most popular blockchain implementation. Blockchain technology holds the promise of making business interactions faster, cheaper, and more trustworthy.

Ethereum For Dummies introduces blockchain and Ethereum, covers their effect on today’s ways of doing business, and teaches you how to design and develop your own Ethereum decentralized applications. You learn how to set up a development environment and write smart contracts that create and control transactions on the Ethereum blockchain.

About This Book

Blockchain technology has the potential to change how business operates. The unprecedented opportunities blockchain promises to provide include easy data sharing among large groups, transparency, trusted transactions, and complete historical audit trails. Today, most organizations protect transaction data as a valued asset, but sharable data could change everything. Sharing trusted data with many participants in a business process has the potential of revolutionizing how organizations interact with one another, reducing the need and cost of middlemen and providing unprecedented transparency to business processes.

Staying current and pertinent means becoming part of this emerging blockchain business model. Ethereum For Dummies gives you the foundation of blockchain and Ethereum, and teaches you, in clear language, how to design and write your own software ...