Permissioned Blockchains in Action is a tool-agnostic guide to creating innovative applications using blockchain technology. Expert authors Mansoor Ahmed-Rengers and Marta Piekarska-Geater share the insight they’ve gained deploying blockchain systems to production, including essential considerations for software maintenance and the unique security challenges of distributed apps. You’ll go from the why, to the what, to the how of permissioned blockchains, putting theory into practice to implement a simple calculator, a betting game with complete UI, and finally create your capstone project: a centrally banked digital currency. Complex theory and principles are illustrated throughout with byte-sized coding exercises and use cases inspired by the authors’ work in the field. By the time you’re done reading, you’ll be ready to take the plunge into modelling real-world relations as blockchain applications.
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1. Making Sense of
Distributed Legder
Technologies
With Permissioned Blockchains in Action.
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2. Trust in key institutions and governments has been steadily declining
over the past two decades. Economic crises, fake news and global
pandemics bring a need for transparency, security and
provability of information.
Business today is no longer based on personal interactions. We
are being asked to put faith in email addresses and phone calls. In a
globally-connected world, business records need to be immutable,
auditable, thus trusted.
Permissioned Blockchains aka Distributed Ledger
Technology brings with it the promise of changing the way we interact,
do business and receive information. Everyone in the network is now able
to verify claims others are making.
3. Permissioned Blockchains in Action is filled with insight, tips and tricks for
building and deploying permissioned blockchain systems. You’ll learn
vital developer skills for securing your blockchains against threats,
writing smart contracts on permissioned blockchains, and picking the
blockchain stack that’s best for your project.
4. Permissioned Blockchains in Action is a
technology-agnostic guide to creating
innovative applications using DLTs.
Permissioned Blockchains in Action is not a
manual. What you will gain is a true
understanding of why we use blockchains
and how to choose the right technology for
your problem
By the time you’re done reading, you’ll be
ready to take the plunge into mapping real-
world relations to blockchain applications.
5. What people are saying
about the book:
Explains blockchain
at a level that just
about anybody
interested in
technology could
understand.
-Ron Lease
Great book. The
author introduces
concepts very
gently and gives
enough theory.
-Zorodzayi Mukuya
Describes how
permissioned
blockchains work,
and analyzes
some real-world
use cases.
-Jose San Leandro
6. About the authors
Mansoor Ahmed-Rengers is a security
researcher, currently pursuing his PhD on the
security of blockchain technologies at the
University of Cambridge. He is the author of five
blockchain research papers, the inventor of the
Robust Round Robin consensus algorithm, and
holds two patents on managing blockchain data.
Marta Piekarska-Geater serves as the Director
of Ecosystem at Hyperledger. After obtaining
her PhD in Computer Security and privacy, she
has been in the DLT space since 2014. Marta
evangelizes DLTs and Open Source at
conferences around the world and helps
enterprises with applying permissioned
Blockchains to their use-cases. Marta is a valued
member of several standardization groups and
technical committees.
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