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Blockchain for Business 2019

You're reading from   Blockchain for Business 2019 A user-friendly introduction to blockchain technology and its business applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789956023
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Peter Lipovyanov Peter Lipovyanov
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptoassets FREE CHAPTER 2. A Brief History of Money 3. The Birth of Bitcoin and the Advantages of a Decentralized Payment System 4. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #1 Blockchain 5. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #2 Cryptography 6. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #3 Consensus Algorithm 7. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #4 P2P Network 8. Five Forces of Bitcoin - #5 Software Code Base 9. How Ethereum Took the Idea of Blockchain to the Next Level 10. Ethereum - A Global Platform for Decentralized Applications 11. Blockchains Focused on Specific Sectors and Use Cases 12. Corporate Blockchains 13. The Disruptive Potential of Blockchain Technology 14. Blockchain and AI 15. Current Issues and Potential Solutions to Take Blockchain to the Next Level 16. Other Books You may Enjoy

On-chain solutions

As we saw in the preceding sections, on-chain transactions can be pretty cumbersome. For this, we will use the following solutions.

Proof-of-Stake

In this book, we have presented two consensus algorithms: Proof-of-Work, and Proof-of-Elapsed Time:

As we learned, consensus algorithms need to be suitable for the ecosystem they support. And there is a big difference between what is suitable for an open permission-less public blockchain, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, and a private permissioned blockchain framework such as Hyperledger. The difference stems from the need for trust in the system, or lack thereof. Different levels of trust call for different consensus algorithms. Therefore Proof-of-Work is suitable...

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