Blockchain Enabled Applications

Work with blockchain and understand its potential application beyond cryptocurrencies in the domains of healthcare, Internet of Things, finance, decentralized organizations, and open science. Featuring case studies and practical insights generated from a start-up spun off from the author's own lab, this book covers a unique mix of topics not found in others and offers insight into how to overcome real hurdles that arise as the market and consumers grow accustomed to blockchain based start-ups.

You'll start with a review of the historical origins of blockchain and explore the basic cryptography needed to make the blockchain work for Bitcoin. You will then learn about the technical advancements made in the surrounded ecosystem: the Ethereum virtual machine, Solidity, Colored Coins, the Hyperledger Project, Blockchain-as-a-service offered through IBM, Microsoft and more.

This book looks at the consequences of machine-to-machine transactions using the blockchain socially, technologically, economically and politically. Blockchain Enabled Applications provides you with a clear perspective of the ecosystem that has developed around the blockchain and the various industries it has penetrated.

What You'll Learn


Implement the code-base from Fabric and Sawtooth, two open source blockchain-efforts being developed under the Hyperledger Project


Evaluate the benefits of integrating blockchain with emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence in the cloud
Use the practical insights provided by the case studies to your own projects or start-up ideas
Set up a development environment to compile and manage projects Who This Book Is For

Developers who are interested in learning about the blockchain as a data-structure, the recent advancements being made and how to implement the code-base.

Decision makers within large corporations (product managers, directors or CIO level executives) interested in implementing the blockchain who need more practical insights and not just theory.

Lucrati cu blockchain si intelegeti aplicatia sa potentiala dincolo de criptomonede in domeniile sanatatii, Internetului obiectelor, finantelor, organizatiilor descentralizate si stiintei deschise. Prezentand studii de caz si informatii practice generate de un start-up derivat din propriul laborator al autorului, aceasta carte acopera un amestec unic de subiecte care nu se gasesc la altii si ofera informatii despre cum sa depasim obstacolele reale care apar pe masura ce piata si consumatorii se obisnuiesc la start-up-uri bazate pe blockchain. Veti incepe cu o revizuire a originilor istorice ale blockchain-ului si veti explora criptografia de baza necesara pentru ca blockchainul sa functioneze pentru Bitcoin.