Blockchain Foundations: For the Internet of Value
- Length: 472 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Epic Books
- Publication Date: 2020-09-15
- ISBN-10: 1682261573
- ISBN-13: 9781682261576
- Sales Rank: #1316913 (See Top 100 Books)
While there are many books on blockchains, this guide focuses on blockchain applications for business. The target audience is business students, professionals, and managers who want to learn about the overall blockchain landscape — the investments, the size of markets, major players and the global reach — as well as the potential business value of blockchain applications and the challenges that must be overcome to achieve that value. We present use cases and derive action principles for building enterprise blockchain capabilities. Readers will learn enough about the underlying technologies to speak intelligently to technology experts in the space, as the guide also covers the blockchain protocols, code bases and provides a glossary of terms. We use this guide as the textbook for our undergraduate and graduate Blockchain Fundamentals course at the University of Arkansas. Other professors interested in adopting this guide for instructional purposes are welcome to contact the author for supporting instructional materials.
Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Figures and Tables Foreword Author’s Acknowledgements Publication credits About the research Why executives, professionals, and students should learn about blockchains Part I: Blockchain Foundations Chapter 1: Moving to the 'Internet of Value' 1.1. Something big is afoot 1.2. Bitcoin: A new solution to some very old problems 1.3. Blockchain communities 1.4. Beyond Bitcoin Chapter 2: The Global Blockchain Landscape 2.1. Overview of the landscape 2.2. The cryptocurrency market 2.3. Blockchain investment 2.4. Blockchain players 2.5. Blockchain indices 2.6. Blockchain’s technology hype cycle 2.7. Conclusion: The landscape shifts rapidly Chapter 3: The Blockchain Application Framework 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Trade before and after a blockchain 3.3. The blockchain application framework 3.4. Blockchain’s distributed ledger vs. traditional distributed databases 3.5. Mapping Bitcoin to the blockchain application framework 3.6. Conclusion Part II: Business Application Examples Chapter 4: Business Applications for Financial Services 4.1. Overview of the cases 4.2. Global payments before blockchains 4.3. Ripple 4.4. Stellar 4.5. WeTrade 4.6. Santander 4.7. Conclusion Chapter 5. Business Applications for Supply Chains 5.1. Overview of the cases 5.2. Challenges and solutions for food safety 5.3. Everledger 5.4. VeriTX 5.5. Conclusion Chapter 6. Business Applications for Energy 6.1. Overview of the cases 6.2. LO3 Energy 6.3. Share and Charge 6.4. Conclusion Chapter 7: Business Applications for Credentials 7.1. Overview of identity and credentials 7.2. Talent acquisition challenges 7.3. SmartResume 7.4. Conclusion Part III: Road to Maturity Chapter 8: Technical Challenges and Emerging Solutions 8.1. Introduction 8.2 Resource consumption 8.3. Security 8.4. Performance and scalability 8.5. Anonymity 8.6. Confidentiality 8.7 Interoperability 8.8. Conclusion Chapter 9: Mindshifts, Strategies and Action Principles 9.1. Making enterprise blockchains a reality 9.2. The blockchain mindset: coopetition and shared governance 9.3. Selling the C-suite 9.4. Blockchain strategy: an ecosystem perspective 9.5. From idea to development 9.6. Design principles 9.7. From deployment to critical mass 9.8. Conclusion Chapter 10: The Future of Blockchains 10.1 Introduction 10.2. Butterfly defects 10.3 Ethical blockchains by design 10.4. Blockchain visionaries: In their own words 10.5. Conclusion Glossary Index Back Cover
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