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Blockchain for Decision Makers

Blockchain for Decision Makers

By : Romain Tormen
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Blockchain for Decision Makers

Blockchain for Decision Makers

By: Romain Tormen

Overview of this book

In addition to cryptocurrencies, blockchain-based apps are being developed in different industries such as banking, supply chain, and healthcare to achieve digital transformation and enhance user experience. Blockchain is not only about Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies, but also about different technologies such as peer-to-peer networks, consensus mechanisms, and cryptography. These technologies together help sustain trustless environments in which digital value can be transferred between individuals without intermediaries. This book will help you understand the basics of blockchain such as consensus protocols, decentralized applications, and tokenization. You'll focus on how blockchain is used today in different industries and the technological challenges faced while implementing a blockchain strategy. The book also enables you, as a decision maker, to understand blockchain from a technical perspective and evaluate its applicability in your business. Finally, you'll get to grips with blockchain frameworks such as Hyperledger and Quorum and their usability. By the end of this book, you'll have learned about the current use cases of blockchain and be able to implement a blockchain strategy on your own.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: A First Step into Blockchain and an Exciting World
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Section 2: Blockchain in Practice, Insights, and Achievements
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Section 3: Blockchain for Business Leaders

Microsoft Azure

Besides these blockchain infrastructures (Quorum, Hyperledger, Aergo, and Corda), several IT companies started to develop cloud-based solutions to enhance user-friendliness, as well as facilitate setting up a blockchain. Instead of configuring servers and operating maintenance on a specific infrastructure on their own, a decision maker can decide to use a fully integrated service called BaaS. Investopedia defines BaaS as follows:

“Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) is an offering that allows customers to leverage cloud-based solutions to build, host and use their own blockchain apps, smart contracts, and functions on the blockchain while the cloud-based service provider manages all the necessary tasks and activities to keep the infrastructure agile and operational.”

As BaaS is gaining momentum in 2019, let's review some of the solutions currently...

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