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Tiana Laurence. Introduction to Blockchain Technology
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Introduction. to blockchain. technology
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Preface
Contents
1 Introduction to Blockchain Technology
1.1 Key blockchain concepts
What is a blockchain?
What are nodes?
What is cryptocurrency?
What are tokens?
What does distributed mean?
1.2 Summary
1.3 Test your knowledge
2 Key parts of blockchain technology
2.1 Cryptography
Machines that encrypted data in the past
Modern encryption
Private and public keys
2.2 What is a hash?
From blocks to hashes
2.3 Ledgers
Transactions and trade
2.4 The public witness
Computers that witness
2.5 Summary
2.6 Test your knowledge
3 The structure of the network: consensus algorithm
3.1 Proof of Work
3.2 Proof of Stake (PoS)
3.3 Delegated Proof of Stake
3.4 Proof of Authority
3.5 Proof of Elapsed Time
3.6 Proof of Capacity and Proof of Space
3.7 Proof of Burn
3.8 Hyperledger Fabric
3.9 Summary
3.10 Test your knowledge
4 Key blockchain networks and technologies
4.1 The history of blockchain networks
4.2 Top challenges for blockchain networks
4.3 A deeper dive into Bitcoin
The top challenges that face Bitcoin’s global adoption
Major Bitcoin contributors
4.4 Hyperledger
4.5 EOS’s delegated Proof of Stake
4.6 Ripple
4.7 Unearthing Ethereum
4.8 The Waves platform – a Russian blockchain
4.9 Summary
4.10 Test your knowledge
5 Second generation applications of Blockchain technology
5.1 Smart contracts
Smart contracts: origins and how they function
Creating and deploying smart contracts
5.2 Tokens
Token standards
Second generation tokens
5.3 Decentralized applications
How are DApps constructed?
5.4 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
How DAOs work
Key takeaways about DAOs
Legality of DAOs
5.5 Summary
5.6 Test your knowledge
6 Expanding applications of blockchain
6.1 Decentralized identity
Online identity - the honey pot
Self-sovereign identity
What is identity?
History of identity documentation
Challenges of identity
6.2 Blockchain protected identity
Blockstack
Microsoft
IBM’s Trusted Identity
Civic
6.3 Blockchain and IoT
Toyota
IBM
6.4 Artificial Intelligence and blockchain
The history of Artificial Intelligence
Companies building blockchain technology for AI
SingularityNET
Enigma
Matrix AI network
6.5 Decentralized marketplaces and exchanges
Challenges of decentralized marketplaces
Lack of legal framework
Emerging developments
Loss of customer touch
Popular decentralized marketplaces and exchanges
OpenBazaar
ModulTrade
FundRequest
6.6 Summary
6.7 Test your knowledge
7 Blockchain and the world economy
7.1 Supply chain industry
Supply chain of the past
Supply chain of the future
Supply chain using blockchain technology
7.2 Cross-border money transfer
A little history in cross-border money transfer
Innovation in cross-border payment
Cross-border payment of the future
Top three challenges in cross-border money transfer
7.3 Financial change agents
The Ripple protocol
The R3 consortium
COTI
Everex
SendFriend
7.4 Summary
7.5 Test your knowledge
8 New frontiers in blockchain and business
8.1 Digital fiat currency
History of digital fiat currency
Top challenges in the digital fiat currency industry
Long-term effects to physical tenders
8.2 Disrupters in banking and currency
eCurrency
Blockstream - Liquid
Ripio
Woorton
BABB
8.3 Blockchain and insurance
History of insurance
Insurance of the present
Insurance of the future
Top challenges in the insurance industry
Blockchain startup companies in the insurance industry
Black
BlockRe
B3i
ChainThat
8.4 Intellectual property rights and providence
History of intellectual property rights
Intellectual property at present
Intellectual property of the future
Top challenges in the intellectual property rights industry
Digital reproduction
Coverage expansion of rights
Digital IP of the future
IPwe
LOCI
Vaultitude
8.5 Summary
8.6 Test your knowledge
9 Blockchain and people
9.1 Lean governments
9.2 Estonia’s e-Residency
9.3 Better authentication and notarization in China
9.4 The trust layer for the internet
9.5 Spam-free email
9.6 Blockchain oracles for IoT
9.7 IP and trusted authorship
9.8 Intellectual property rights
9.9 Government
Smart cities of China - Hangzhou
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Singapore’s Smart Nation project
Singapore satellite cities in India
China’s Whole Country strategy
9.10 Financial capitals of the world
London
Exciting projects across the UK
9.11 Dubai’s 2020 goal
9.12 BitLicense of New York City
9.13 Malta, the blockchain island of the EU
9.14 German blockchain
9.15 French blockchain efforts
9.16 Summary
9.17 Test your knowledge
10 Blockchain and the inhibitors
10.1 Blockchain vulnerabilities
Smart contract vulnerabilities
Centralized public networks
Centralized private networks
10.2 Community fractures and feuds
10.3 Fraud and scams
Advanced fee schemes
Identity theft and credit card fraud
Internet and device hacking
Market manipulation
Pyramid and Ponzi schemes
10.4 Summary
10.5 Test your knowledge
Appendix A: Answer Keys. Section 1.3
Section 2.4
Section 3.10
Section 4.10
Section 5.6
Section 6.7
Section 7.5
Section 8.6
Section 9.16
Section 10.5
Index
