Mastering Blockchain: Deeper insights into decentralization, cryptography, Bitcoin, and popular Blockchain frameworks
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Mastering Blockchain gives an overview of this leading technology and its implementation in the real world. Blockchain is a distributed database that enables permanent, transparent, and secure storage of data. The blockchain technology is the backbone of cryptocurrency – in fact, it’s the shared public ledger upon which the entire Bitcoin network relies – and it’s gaining popularity with people who work in finance, government, and the arts.
Introduction:
Mastering Blockchain has one goal: to provide a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of blockchain technology. Mastering Blockchain contains all the material that is required to fully understand blockchain technology. After reading this book, readers will be able to develop a deep understanding of inner workings of blockchain technology and will be able to develop blockchain applications.
Mastering Blockchain covers all topics relevant to blockchain technology, including cryptography, cryptocurrenices, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and various other platforms and tools used for blockchain development. Mastering Blockchain begins with the technical foundations of blockchain, teaching you the fundamentals of cryptography and how it keeps data secure. You will learn about the mechanisms behind cryptocurrencies and how to develop applications using Ethereum, a decentralized virtual machine.
You will explore different blockchain solutions and get an exclusive preview into Hyperledger, an upcoming blockchain solution from IBM and the Linux Foundation. You will also be shown how to implement blockchain beyond currencies, scability with blockchain, and the future scope of this fascinating and powerful technology.
What You Will Learn
- Get to grips with the theoretical and technical foundations of blockchain technology
- Fully comprehend the concept of decentralization, its impact and relationship with blockchain technology
- Experience how cryptography is used to secure data with practical examples
- Grasp the inner workings of blockchain and relevant mechanisms behind Bitcoin and alternative cryptocurrencies
- Understand theoretical foundations of smart contracts
- Identify and examine applications of blockchain technology outside of currencies
- Investigate alternate blockchain solutions including Hyperledger, Corda, and many more
- Explore research topics and future scope of blockchain technology
Contents:
- Blockchain 101
- Decentralization
- Cryptography and Technical Foundations
- Bitcoin
- Alternative Coins
- Smart Contracts
- Ethereum 101
- Ethereum Development
- Hyperledger
- Alternative Blockchains
- Blockchain-Outside of Currencies
- Scalability and Other Challenges
- Current Landscape and Whats Next
Mastering Blockchain: Deeper insights into decentralization, cryptography, Bitcoin, and popular Blockchain frameworks By Imran Bashir PDF
14 reviews for Mastering Blockchain: Deeper insights into decentralization, cryptography, Bitcoin, and popular Blockchain frameworks
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Saoirse Young (verified owner) –
This is a very problematic book. I wanted to give it two stars because it serves as a moderately good history of blockchain and related technologies but in my opinion you could and should find better treatments for free on the web.
The book doesn’t deliver what it claims to and the author either doesn’t understand many of the topics they talk about or how to explain them. Or both. The most obvious example is the section on cryptography. The author begins by introducing algebraic concepts which they claim are necessary for understanding concepts introduced later in the book.
They really aren’t, and they are introduced incompetently. This whole section looks as though the author doesn’t really understand the subject and has copied and pasted from various sources. The author introduces algebraic concepts beginning with sets but in explaining how to get from sets to groups and rings and so on mentions concepts they don’t bother to define.
But it doesn’t matter anyway, because those concepts are not useful in understanding anything else in the text. They’re filler and to make the author look mathematically competent, which is a dubious claim at best. A hamfisted treatment of algebra really doesn’t help anyone understand how blockchain works.
Different examples use different sorts of notation, which is always a worry. The examples themselves are… not really examples. They are mentions of examples.
The promises of practical examples are unfounded. There’s nothing in this book that will help you develop a blockchain application.
The text itself is highly repetitive. Virtually every paragraph serves to explain what the text is about to explain, then just explains that it will be explained later. It never is, to any useful degree.
The book could have used a better editor: there are many instances of weirdly ambiguous text and cases where sentences could have been easily corrected to be less broken. I don’t blame the author for this, surely an editor could have fixed those problems. That didn’t occur.
I really hate writing bad reviews. I’ve had plenty of bad reviews myself and I know how it feels. But this book pretends to do something it doesn’t and the author doesn’t deserve my money or anyone else’s, sorry.
Clementine Howell (verified owner) –
In this book you will learn blockchain concepts, history and visions for the technology future. Not only about bitcoin, the books tells about other criptos, his advantages and disadvantages.
Conner Blackwell (verified owner) –
Good book. Easy read.
Megan Alfaro (verified owner) –
In short, I’m very disappointed. First, the book has a significant portion describing the terminologies without linkage. So it’s like a dictionary which is hard to read in a smooth flow. Second, the program code inside is simply outdated. Over 50% of the code has errors and can’t be run successfully. I need to google many sites, groups, and forums and even dig into the source code of the open-sourced projects to make the code running, very tedious, very frustrated.
Bradley Velez (verified owner) –
Not many books touch so many topics as this book. After reading a couple of chapters I started to feel dissapointed and bored about how this book is set up. It is just a large summary of many topics and I really did learn a lot. But is not well written and it is like it is not been reviewed by the publisher. It has many errors and the code is outdated, but that is a problem of many books with no online repository of code. I used it with some other books to study blockchains. I hoped that the Packt delivered better books nowadays but still the quality is not good.
Naomi Ayers (verified owner) –
Clearly English isn’t author’s native language. The book would benefit from a good editor. The way it is written it is very difficult to read
Hazel Reilly (verified owner) –
Very well written book! Recommended!
Scout McGee (verified owner) –
The book feels like a bunch of crypto definitions put together into a book. It feels like reading a dictionary without a fluent transition between definitions.
Axton Keith (verified owner) –
This book is a good and comprehensive introduction to Blockchain. Great resource for self study.
Ulises Nava (verified owner) –
The book touches a lot of topics, but none of them is in very detail or explained very thoroughly. I read this book and want to get the technical detail of how thing works, but I feel confusing a lot of time. The sample is very limited, and not a lot explain in its own diagrams. I have to do a few wiki search to see what it really means. there are better books than this
Willow Copeland (verified owner) –
Well written book with good examples. 100% recommended!!
Alvaro Massey (verified owner) –
A “more than I bargained for” purchase. Would make a great text book for a course on the subject. Would dread the homework.
Asher Walker (verified owner) –
Extremely disappointed by the book. Written more like a survey of what is out there rather than in depth analyzed insights making it difficult to follow and questions the value of the book itself.
Xzavier Mitchell (verified owner) –
guy I sent it to said it was great