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The Blockchain Developer: A Practical Guide for Designing, Implementing, Publishing, Testing, and Securing Distributed Blockchain-based Projects

Name: The Blockchain Developer: A Practical Guide for Designing, Implementing, Publishing, Testing, and Securing Distributed Blockchain-based Projects
Author: Elad Elrom
ISBN: 9781484248478

by Elad Elrom

July 2019

Intermediate to advanced

527 pages

9h 16m

English

Apress

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Elad ElromThe Blockchain Developerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4847-8_8

8. Hyperledger

Elad Elrom¹

(1)

New York, NY, USA

In previous chapters, I covered blockchain technologies that are focused on cryptocurrency, and in fact, each project I have covered so far has included its own currency. Hyperledger is different; it does not have a currency attached, although you can create a coin if needed. Instead, Hyperledger was created with the aim of being an open source platform targeted at utilizing blockchain to fit business needs.

Hyperledger started in 2015 as an open source blockchain contributed by Digital Asset and IBM as a result of a hackathon (now the blockchain is called Hyperledger Fabric), and it extended to consists ...

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