August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
13h 52m
English
Content preview from Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity
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Introduction to Blockchain
Blockchain technology was born with the invention of Bitcoin—a new form of peer-to-peer (P2P) electronic cash—back in 2008. The Bitcoin white paper was released on October 31, 2008 and the first release of Bitcoin came on January 3, 2009. The blockchain space is still a toddler in terms of adoption and the tools available. It has some unique properties that did not exist before in any of the previous systems or software applications. The most important property of blockchain is establishing trust between two or multiple parties without needing any intermediaries, which opens a new era in programming.
Ethereum is one of the implementations of blockchain. Ethereum is an open source, public, and distributed computing ...