Blockchain Technology: From Theory to Practice

Blockchain is a revolutionary technology platform for decentralized applications and data storage, offering tamper resistance, immutability, and verifiability. It is widely used in cryptocurrencies but has many other potential applications, such as time stamping, logging, and trustworthy e-governance. This book provides an in-depth insight into the need for decentralization, smart contracts, consensus, and blockchain development frameworks, tools, and platforms, making it a valuable learning resource for cryptocurrency and blockchain technology examinations and certifications.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 408 pages
Publication date: 17 May 2023
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

Blockchain, a groundbreaking technology platform, emerges as a transformative force in the realm of decentralized applications and data storage, surpassing its primary function as the underlying technology behind cryptocurrencies. At its core, blockchain operates on the principle of creating a distributed and replicated ledger of events, transactions, and data generated through diverse IT processes, all fortified with robust cryptographic guarantees of tamper resistance, immutability, and verifiability. Public blockchain platforms, in particular, enable us to attain these properties with overwhelming probabilities, even when untrusted users participate in distributed applications capable of transacting on the platform. While blockchain technology has gained widespread recognition due to its application in cryptocurrencies like BitCoin and Ethereum, its true potential extends far beyond this realm. It holds immense promise in areas such as time stamping, logging critical events in systems, recording transactions, fostering trustworthy e-governance, and more.

This comprehensive book delves into both the theoretical and practical aspects of blockchain technology, providing a deep understanding of the rationale behind decentralization, the significance of smart contracts, the dynamics of consensus, both permissioned and permissionless, and a diverse range of blockchain development frameworks, tools, and platforms. Serving as an invaluable learning resource, it equips students with the knowledge necessary to excel in various examinations and certifications related to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Written in a lucid and accessible style, the book aims to familiarize students with the implementation perspective of this much-needed technology, empowering them to contribute to the ongoing evolution of this revolutionary field.

Weight: 658g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811914904
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022