October 2020
Beginner
484 pages
13h 39m
English
Content preview from Mastering Corda
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Preface
Although I had been familiar with Corda for some time, my first interaction with R3 came accidentally in the spring of 2018 when I noticed a Corda bootcamp being offered. I signed up for the bootcamp, excited to learn about how to code on, what was for me, a new blockchain. I was already intimate with building and teaching about decentralized applications using Solidity on Ethereum and Bitcoin scripts, but Corda was a permissioned chain and permissioned chains were only beginning to come to the forefront at the time. A few weeks later and a week before the bootcamp I received a notification from EventBrite informing me that the class had been cancelled. I later learned that it was cancelled due to low enrollments.
Saddened, I decided to email R3 and ask them if they could reschedule the bootcamp. My request went into their ticketing system and bounced around between several people (I know this because I received a reply with the full email thread), and a gentleman by the name of Guy Hochstetler agreed to meet with me. Amazingly, it so happened to be that my office was directly across the street from R3 with only Bryant Park between us, and we decided to meet for lunch. To prepare for the meeting, I decided to spend a week digging into the technical aspects of the Corda framework, read the two Corda whitepapers, and catch up on the latest news related to R3 and the Corda platform.
We met at a sushi restaurant nearby on a crisp and sunny afternoon. I can vividly recall ...
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