Author: Michael Roberts Publisher: Richards Education ISBN: Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 159
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Discover the transformative power of blockchain technology with Blockchain Revolution: Exploring the Power of Distributed Ledger Technology. This comprehensive guide delves into the foundations, applications, and future trends of blockchain, offering insights into how this groundbreaking technology is reshaping industries beyond cryptocurrencies. From understanding the technical aspects and security measures to exploring real-world case studies and business implications, this book provides a thorough exploration of blockchain's potential. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, business leader, or curious learner, this book equips you with the knowledge to navigate and leverage the blockchain revolution.
Author: Charles Nehme Publisher: Charles Nehme ISBN: Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 91
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Blockchain Revolution In recent years, a groundbreaking technology has emerged that has the potential to disrupt and reshape industries across the globe. This technology is known as blockchain, and its impact is being felt far beyond the realms of finance and cryptocurrencies. It is ushering in a new era of decentralization, transparency, and trust that holds the promise of transforming various sectors in profound ways. The purpose of this book is to explore the phenomenon of blockchain and its revolutionary potential. We aim to provide a comprehensive understanding of blockchain technology, its underlying principles, and its implications for industries such as finance, supply chain management, healthcare, identity management, energy, and governance. Throughout these pages, we will delve into the core concepts of blockchain, discussing its decentralized nature and the use of cryptographic algorithms to secure transactions and data. We will examine the concept of distributed ledgers and explore how they can provide an immutable and transparent record of transactions, enabling greater trust and accountability. Furthermore, we will explore the transformative power of blockchain across various industries. We will illustrate how blockchain can enhance financial services by eliminating intermediaries, enabling faster and more secure transactions, and promoting financial inclusion. We will demonstrate how it can revolutionize supply chain management by providing end-to-end traceability, reducing fraud, and increasing efficiency. We will delve into its potential to revolutionize healthcare by securely storing and sharing patient data, improving interoperability, and enabling personalized medicine. We will discuss how blockchain can empower individuals with self-sovereign digital identities, enabling secure and verifiable online interactions. We will explore how it can drive the transition to a sustainable energy ecosystem by facilitating peer-to-peer energy trading and tracking renewable energy generation. And finally, we will examine its potential to enhance governance systems and voting processes, fostering transparency, trust, and citizen participation. While the potential of blockchain is vast and its possibilities exciting, we recognize that challenges lie ahead. Scalability, regulatory frameworks, interoperability, and energy consumption are among the hurdles that need to be addressed to fully realize the potential of this technology. However, we believe that with collective efforts and innovative solutions, these challenges can be overcome, paving the way for a future where blockchain plays a central role in reshaping industries and fostering a more inclusive, transparent, and efficient world. This book is intended for a wide audience, from industry professionals and policymakers to entrepreneurs and curious individuals seeking to understand the transformative power of blockchain technology. We hope that by exploring its possibilities and implications, readers will gain insights into the vast potential of blockchain and become active participants in the blockchain revolution. So let us embark on this journey together, as we explore the world of blockchain and its potential to revolutionize industries and reshape the way we interact, transact, and trust in the digital age. Welcome to the blockchain revolution.
Author: Don Tapscott Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 110198015X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 421
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Blockchain technology is powering our future. As the technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Facebook's Libra, open software platforms like Ethereum, and disruptive companies like Ripple, it’s too important to ignore. In this revelatory book, Don Tapscott, the bestselling author of Wikinomics, and his son, blockchain expert Alex Tapscott, bring us a brilliantly researched, highly readable, and essential book about the technology driving the future of the economy. Blockchain is the ingeniously simple, revolutionary protocol that allows transactions to be simultaneously anonymous and secure by maintaining a tamperproof public ledger of value. Though it’s best known as the technology that drives bitcoin and other digital currencies, it also has the potential to go far beyond currency, to record virtually everything of value to humankind, from birth and death certificates to insurance claims, land titles, and even votes. Blockchain is also essential to understand if you’re an artist who wants to make a living off your art, a consumer who wants to know where that hamburger meat really came from, an immigrant who’s tired of paying big fees to send money home to your loved ones, or an entrepreneur looking for a new platform to build a business. And those examples are barely the tip of the iceberg. As with major paradigm shifts that preceded it, blockchain technology will create winners and losers. This book shines a light on where it can lead us in the next decade and beyond.
Author: Gerald R. Gray Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030857166 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 200
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Blockchain is a technology that tends to be misunderstood by managers that need to make technology acquisition decisions. This book will provide readers with a basic understanding of blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT), the technologies that underpin it, and the technologies DLT is built upon. The book is purposefully not a book on how to code or explore other technical aspects of blockchain (other than the fundamentals). Rather, it provides managers with the basic understanding of the architectures and consensus algorithms, how they work, the design trade-offs of each architecture type, and what problems and use cases the core characteristics of DLT are best suited to solve ─ providing business managers with the core information they need to ask the right questions of vendors when making business value assessments and acquisition decisions.
Author: Hossein Kakavand Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 27
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Blockchain is on the verge of revolutionizing how we interact in the digital world. It has far reaching applications from the Financial industry to many other sectors of the economy. The question is what is Blockchain, what are the underlying concepts, what is the current state of technological implementation and the current state of its regulatory landscape. While the aswers to these questions take multiple volumes of articles by a vast array of experts in numerous related fields, in this article we will address these questions and provide some basic answers. For those active in the general Blockchain and Digital currency space, from the academic, technology, industry, legal or other points of view, it is important to have a broad overview of the space in general. We provide a general description of Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchains, Blockchain Technology and Digital Currencies, discuss the associated basic concepts and definitions and the interplay between these concepts. We discuss Blockchain Technical Concepts and infrastructure Implementations, their tradeoffs, benefits, limitations and metrics by which the performance these implementations are measured. We also address the concept of Permissioned Blockchains. In addition we discuss a number of practical applications of Blockchains beyond the financial industry applications.
Author: Michael Beebe Publisher: Michael Beebe ISBN: Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 344
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This book explores the evolution of trust throughout human civilization, highlighting its transformation from mutual reliance in prehistoric societies to complex networks and organizations in the modern digital age. Trust, a cornerstone of human relationships, faces particular challenges in the digital era, where virtual interactions have become increasingly intricate. However, the emergence of blockchain technology presents a groundbreaking solution, poised to redefine trust and revolutionize interactions and transactions in the modern world. Initially associated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, blockchain is a distributed ledger system that records transactions across a network of computers. Unlike traditional trust models reliant on intermediaries, blockchain fosters trust through consensus procedures and cryptographic techniques, creating transparent and immutable transaction records. Its advanced consensus mechanisms, such as Proof of Work and Proof of Stake, ensure network security and integrity. The transparency afforded by blockchain reduces reliance on opaque centralized entities, enhancing accountability and reducing blind trust. Furthermore, blockchain's immutability and decentralized structure make it resistant to fraud and manipulation, offering reliability and resilience across various industries including finance, supply chain management, healthcare, and government services. Despite challenges such as scalability and legal frameworks, the potential of blockchain technology to promote transparency and trust in the digital age is vast, requiring collaboration among industry leaders, legislators, and researchers to fully realize its benefits. Embracing blockchain technology heralds a future characterized by increased dependability and inclusivity, marking a significant shift in how we communicate and conduct business.
Author: Saravanan Krishnan Publisher: Academic Press ISBN: 012820415X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 478
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Handbook of Research on Blockchain Technology presents the latest information on the adaptation and implementation of Blockchain technologies in real world business, scientific, healthcare and biomedical applications. The book's editors present the rapid advancements in existing business models by applying Blockchain techniques. Novel architectural solutions in the deployment of Blockchain comprise the core aspects of this book. Several use cases with IoT, biomedical engineering, and smart cities are also incorporated. As Blockchain is a relatively new technology that exploits decentralized networks and is used in many sectors for reliable, cost-effective and rapid business transactions, this book is a welcomed addition on existing knowledge. Financial services, retail, insurance, logistics, supply chain, public sectors and biomedical industries are now investing in Blockchain research and technologies for their business growth. Blockchain prevents double spending in financial transactions without the need of a trusted authority or central server. It is a decentralized ledger platform that facilitates verifiable transactions between parties in a secure and smart way. - Presents the evolution of blockchain, from fundamental theories, to present forms - Explains the concepts of blockchain related to cloud/edge computing, smart healthcare, smart cities and Internet of Things (IoT) - Provides complete coverage of the various tools, platforms and techniques used in blockchain - Explores smart contract tools and consensus algorithms - Covers a variety of applications with real world case studies in areas such as biomedical engineering, supply chain management, and tracking of goods and delivery
Author: Don Tapscott Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0241237874 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 432
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'This book has had an enormous impact' Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft 'Spectacular. Mind-blowing in its expansiveness and profundity' Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple 'Iconic' Clay Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma Cryptocurrencies are changing the world. They grant everyday people the power to invest, disrupt the world order and contribute towards a better future. Blockchain is the ingeniously simple technology that powers cryptos. It is a public ledger to which everyone has access, but which no single person or institution controls. It allows for companies and individuals to collaborate with an unprecedented degree of trust and transparency. It is cryptographically secure, but fundamentally open. And it is everywhere. In Blockchain Revolution, Don and Alex Tapscott reveal: · how this game-changing technology is re-shaping the global economy · how it is improving everything from healthcare records to online voting · how people everywhere are using it to side-step institutional barriers and take control of their future Brilliantly researched and highly accessible, this is the essential text on this major paradigm shift. Read it, or be left behind.
Author: Imran Bashir Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1787129292 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 531
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Distributed ledgers, decentralization and smart contracts explained About This Book Get to grips with the underlying technical principles and implementations of blockchain. Build powerful applications using Ethereum to secure transactions and create smart contracts. Explore cryptography, mine cryptocurrencies, and solve scalability issues with this comprehensive guide. Who This Book Is For This book appeals to those who wish to build fast, highly secure, transactional applications. This book is for those who are familiar with the concept of blockchain and are comfortable with a programming language. What You Will Learn Master the theoretical and technical foundations of blockchain technology Fully comprehend the concept of decentralization, its impact and relationship with blockchain technology Experience how cryptography is used to secure data with practical examples Grasp the inner workings of blockchain and relevant mechanisms behind Bitcoin and alternative cryptocurrencies Understand theoretical foundations of smart contracts Identify and examine applications of blockchain technology outside of currencies Investigate alternate blockchain solutions including Hyperledger, Corda, and many more Explore research topics and future scope of blockchain technology In Detail Blockchain is a distributed database that enables permanent, transparent, and secure storage of data. The blockchain technology is the backbone of cryptocurrency – in fact, it's the shared public ledger upon which the entire Bitcoin network relies – and it's gaining popularity with people who work in finance, government, and the arts. Blockhchain technology uses cryptography to keep data secure. This book gives a detailed description of this leading technology and its implementation in the real world. This book begins with the technical foundations of blockchain, teaching you the fundamentals of cryptography and how it keeps data secure. You will learn about the mechanisms behind cryptocurrencies and how to develop applications using Ethereum, a decentralized virtual machine. You will explore different blockchain solutions and get an exclusive preview into Hyperledger, an upcoming blockchain solution from IBM and the Linux Foundation. You will also be shown how to implement blockchain beyond currencies, scability with blockchain, and the future scope of this fascinating and powerful technology. Style and approach This comprehensive guide allows you to build smart blockchain applications and explore the power of this database. The book will let you quickly brush up on the basics of the blockchain database, followed by advanced implementations of blockchain in currency, smart contracts, decentralization, and so on.
Author: Michael Roberts
Author: Charles Nehme
Author: Don Tapscott
Author: Herman Strange
Author: Gerald R. Gray
Author: Hossein Kakavand
Author: Michael Beebe
Author: Saravanan Krishnan
Author: Don Tapscott
Author: Imran Bashir