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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

Blockchain definitions

You'll remember that one of the very first things we did in this chapter was note there are several definitions of the word blockchain. Before we move on, let's have a look at several definitions of the word:

"A blockchain is a peer-to-peer distributed ledger forged by consensus, combined with a system for "smart contracts" and other assistive technologies."
- hyperledger.org
"A blockchain is a specific form or subset of distributed ledger technologies, which constructs a chronological chain of blocks, hence the name "block-chain.""
- Antony Lewis, the Director of Research at R3
"The blockchain data structure is an ordered, back-linked list of blocks."
- Andreas Antonopoulos, a popular Bitcoin evangelist
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