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IN THIS CHAPTER

Creating and using a Bitcoin and Ethereum wallet

Exchanging Bitcoin for Ether

Creating a blockchain asset

Leasing a blockchain asset

Deploying a private blockchain

Blockchains are very powerful tools and are positioned to change how the world moves money, secures systems, and builds digital identities. If you aren’t a core developer, you probably won’t be doing any in-depth blockchain development in the near future. That said, you still need to understand how blockchains work and what their core limitations are because they’ll be integrated into many everyday online interactions in the near future — from how businesses pay people to how governments know that their systems and data are intact and secure.

In this chapter, you dive right into blockchain technology. You purchase your first cryptocurrency and find out how to exchange it for other currencies. You set up special applications that will give you access to a whole ecosystem of decentralized applications (known as dApps). You also set up a secure environment to use your cryptocurrency, and create and lease out digital blockchain assets through a blockchain game.

This chapter provides you with an understanding of many of the basic functionalities that blockchain technology offers. You also develop a basic understanding of some of the additional security you need to have while working with cryptocurrency. And you begin to establish the basic crypto accounts that you need in later chapters.