Blockchain for dummies /
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| Author / Creator: | Laurence, Tiana, author. |
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| Imprint: | [Place of publication not identified] : Wiley, [2017] |
| Description: | 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | For dummies --For dummies. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13651154 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1. Getting Started with Blockchain
- Chapter 1. Introducing Blockchain
- Beginning at the Beginning: What Blockchains Are
- What blockchains do
- Why blockchains matter
- The Structure of Blockchains
- Blockchain Applications
- The Blockchain Life Cycle
- Consensus: The Driving Force of Blockchains
- Blockchains in Use
- Current blockchain uses
- Future blockchain applications
- Chapter 2. Picking a Blockchain
- Where Blockchains Add Substance
- Determining your needs
- Defining your goal
- Choosing a Solution
- Drawing a blockchain decision tree
- Making a plan
- Chapter 3. Getting Your Hands on Blockchain
- Diving into the Bitcoin Blockchain
- Creating your first Bitcoin wallet
- Creating a second Bitcoin wallet
- Generating a Bitcoin vanity address
- Transferring your vanity address
- Making an entry into the Bitcoin blockchain
- Reading a blockchain entry in Bitcoin
- Using Smart Contracts with Bitcoin
- Building your first smart bond
- Checking the status of your contract
- Building a Private Blockchain with Docker and Ethereum
- Preparing your computer
- Building your blockchain
- Part 2. Developing Your Knowledge
- Chapter 4. Beholding the Bitcoin Blockchain
- Getting a Brief History of the Bitcoin Blockchain
- Debunking Some Common Bitcoin Misconceptions
- Bitcoin: The New Wild West
- Fake sites
- No, you first!
- Get-rich-quick schemes
- Mining for Bitcoins
- Making Your First Paper Wallet
- Chapter 5. Encountering the Ethereum Blockchain
- Exploring the Brief History of Ethereum
- Ethereum: The Open-Source World Wide Computer
- Decentralized applications: Welcome to the future
- The power of decentralized autonomous organizations
- Hacking a Blockchain
- Understanding smart contracts
- Discovering the cryptocurrency Ether
- Getting Up and Running on Ethereum
- Mining for ether
- Setting up your Ethereum wallet
- Building Your First Decentralized Autonomous Organization
- Test net and congress
- Governance and voting
- Uncovering the Future of DAOs
- Putting money in a DAO
- Building smarter smart contracts
- Finding bugs in the system
- Chapter 6. Regarding the Ripple Blockchain
- Getting a Brief History of the Ripple Blockchain
- Ripple: It's All About Trust
- Seeing How Ripple Differs from Other Blockchains
- Unleashing the Full Power of Ripple
- Exercising Caution with Ripple
- Chapter 7. Finding the Factom Blockchain
- A Matter of Trust
- The purpose of the Factom blockchain: Publishing anything
- Incentives of federation
- Building on Factom
- Authenticating documents and building identities using APIs
- Getting to know the Factoid: Not a normal token
- Anchoring your application
- Publishing on Factom
- Building transparency in the mortgage industry
- Verifying physical documents: dLoc with Factom
- Chapter 8. Digging into DigiByte
- Getting Familiar with DigiByte: The Fast Blockchain
- Mining on DigiByte
- Signing Documents on DigiByte's DiguSign
- Earning DigiBytes While Gaming
- Part 3. Powerful Blockhain Platforms
- Chapter 9. Getting Your Hands on Hyperledger
- Getting to Know Hyperledger: Dreams of a Hyper Future
- Focusing on Fabric
- Building your system in Fabric
- Diving into chaincode development
- Investigating the Iroha Project
- Introducing Sumeragi: The new consensus algorithm
- Developing mobile apps
- Diving into Sawtooth Lake
- Exploring the consensus algorithm: Proof of Elapsed Time
- Deploying Sawtooth
- Chapter 10. Applying Microsoft Azure
- Bletchley: The Modular Blockchain Fabric
- Cryptlets for encrypting and authenticating
- Utility and Contract Cryptlets and CrytoDelegates
- Building in the Azure Ecosystem
- Getting Started with Chain on Azure
- Installing Chain's distributed ledger
- Creating your own private network
- Using financial services on Azure's Chain
- Deploying Blockchain Tools on Azure
- Exploring Ethereum on Azure
- Cortana: Your analytics machine learning tool
- Visualizing your data with Power Bl
- Managing your access on Azure's Active Directory
- Chapter 11. Getting Busy on IBM Bluemix
- Business Blockchain on Bluemix
- Your isolated environment
- Bluemix use cases
- Watson's Smart Blockchain
- Building Your Starter Network on Big Blue
- Part 4. Industry Impacts
- Chapter 12. Financial Technology
- Hauling Out Your Crystal Ball: Future Banking Trends
- Moving money faster: Across borders and more
- Creating permanent history
- Going International: Global Financial Products
- Border-free payroll
- Faster and better trade
- Guaranteed payments
- Micropayments: The new nature of transactions
- Squeezing Out Fraud
- Chapter 13. Real Estate
- Eliminating Title Insurance
- Protected industries
- Consumers and Fannie Mae
- Mortgages in the Blockchain World
- Reducing your origination costs
- Knowing your last-known document
- Forecasting Regional Trends
- The United States and Europe: Infrastructure congestion
- China: First out of the gate
- The developing world: Roadblocks to blockchain
- Chapter 14. Insurance
- Precisely Tailoring Coverage
- Insuring the individual
- The new world of micro insurance
- Witnessing for You: The Internet of Things
- IoT projects in insurance
- Implications of actionable big data
- Taking Out the Third Party in Insurance
- Decentralized security
- Crowdfunded coverage
- The implications of DAO insurance
- Chapter 15. Government
- The Smart Cities of Asia
- Singapore satellite cities in India
- China's big data problem
- The Battle for the Financial Capital of the World
- London's early foresight
- The regulatory sandbox of Singapore
- The Dubai 2020 initiative
- Bitlicense regulatory framework: New York City
- Securing the World's Borders
- The Department of Homeland Security and the identity of things
- Passports of the future
- The new feeder document
- Chapter 16. Other Industries
- Lean Governments
- Singapore's Smart Nation project
- Estonia's e-Residency
- Better notarization in China
- The Trust Layer for the Internet
- Spam-free email
- Owning your identity
- Oracle of the Blockchain
- Trusted authorship
- Intellectual property rights
- Part 5. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 17. Ten Free Blockchain Resources
- Factom University
- Ethereum 101
- Build on Ripple
- Programmable Money by Ripple
- DigiKnow
- Blockchain University
- Bitcoin Core
- Blockchain Alliance
- Multichain Blog
- HiveMind
- Chapter 18. The Ten Rules to Never Break on the Blockchain
- Don't Use Cryptocurrency or Blockchains to Skirt the Law
- Keep Your Contracts as Simple as Possible
- Publish with Great Caution
- Back Up, Back Up, Back Up Your Private Keys
- Triple-Check the Address Before Sending Currency
- Take Care When Using Exchanges
- Beware Wi-Fi
- Identify Your Blockchain Dev
- Don't Get Suckered
- Don't Trade Tokens Unless You Know What You're Doing
- Chapter 19. Ten Top Blockchain Projects
- The R3 Consortium
- T ZERO: Overstocking the Stock Market
- Blockstream's Distributed Systems
- OpenBa/aar's Blockchain
- Code Valley: Find Your Coder
- Bitfury's Digital Assets
- Any Coin Can ShapeShift
- Machine-Payable Apps on 21
- Anonymous Transactions on Dash
- ConsenSys: Decentralized Applications
- Index