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Foundations of Blockchain

You're reading from   Foundations of Blockchain The pathway to cryptocurrencies and decentralized blockchain applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789139396
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Koshik Raj Koshik Raj
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. A Bit of Cryptography 3. Cryptography in Blockchain 4. Networking in Blockchain 5. Cryptocurrency 6. Diving into Blockchain - Proof of Existence 7. Diving into Blockchain - Proof of Ownership 8. Blockchain Projects 9. Blockchain Optimizations and Enhancements 10. Blockchain Security 11. When Shouldn't We Use Blockchain? 12. Blockchain Use Cases 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

When Shouldn't We Use Blockchain?

So far in this book, we've learned about a number of blockchain concepts in order to understand blockchain's basic functionalities. We've also, throughout the previous chapters, dived deep into the technology in order to get familiar with decentralized applications. However, as we are looking at the foundations of blockchain technology that can help us build applications in a decentralized network, it's important for us to ask ourselves the question, why blockchain? It's only useful to use blockchain in a use case if that case requires the characteristics of a blockchain.

In this chapter, we'll explore the characteristics of blockchain and analyze how they influence the implementation of a blockchain use case. We'll also be looking into some of the frameworks you can use to analyze a blockchain use case...

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