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Introducing Ethereum and Solidity: Foundations of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Programming for Beginners

Name: Introducing Ethereum and Solidity: Foundations of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Programming for Beginners
Author: Chris Dannen
ISBN: 9781484225356

by Chris Dannen

March 2017

Beginner

185 pages

5h 57m

English

Apress

Content preview from Introducing Ethereum and Solidity: Foundations of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Programming for Beginners

Chris Dannen, Introducing Ethereum and Solidity, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2535-6_10

10. Use Cases

Proof of work, decentralization, Merkle and Patricia trees, asymmetric cryptography, smart contracts … What can you make with such ingredients?

Chris Dannen¹

(1)Brooklyn, New York, USA

Whether Ethereum is useful, and indeed groundbreaking, is best evaluated in the same terms as other network protocols. It’s been so long since Ted Nelson coined the term hypertext in 1965, with his Xanadu project, that it’s easy to forget why people liked HTTP and its sibling, HTML. It had exactly one method, GET, which would request a page from a web server. The only acceptable response was an HTML page.¹

In many respects, the Ethereum network today is in ...

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Introducing Ethereum and Solidity: Foundations of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Programming for Beginners

by Chris Dannen

10. Use Cases

Proof of work, decentralization, Merkle and Patricia trees, asymmetric cryptography, smart contracts … What can you make with such ingredients?

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