Introducing ethereum and solidity : foundations of cryptocurrency and blockchain programming for beginners /: foundations of cryptocurrency and blockchain programming for beginners. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Chris Dannen.
• Authors: Dannen, Chris
• Contents: At a Glance; Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Chapter 1: Bridging the Blockchain Knowledge Gap; Blockchain Roll Call!; What Ethereum Does; Three Parts of a Blockchain; Ethereum Assumes Many Chains; This Is a Scam, Just Like Bitcoin!; Ether as a Currency and Commodity; Gresham's Law; The Path to Better Money; Cryptoeconomics and Security; Back to the Good Old Days; Cryptochaos; The Power Is in the Protocol; You Can Build Trustless Systems; What Smart Contracts (Really) Do; Objects and Methods for Value; Just Add Commerce; Content Creation; Where's the Data? What Is Mining?Ether and Electricity Prices; Going Inside the EVM; The Mist Browser; Browser vs. Wallet or Keychain; Solidity Is Kind of Like JavaScript, But & What Ethereum Is Good For; A Critical Take; "Without any possibility of downtime, censorship, or third-party interference"; "A secure, free, and open platform for the Internet of Things"; "Enabling transparent governance for communities and businesses"; "Handles user authentication and secure payments for you, as well as messaging and even decentralized storage"; "No need to sign up or pay for application host. The world's first zero-infrastructure platform"State of Smart Contract Development Today; Copycat Coins; Funding Your Project; Deciding Where You Fit In; A Note to New Programmers; Ethereum Is Free and Open Source; The EVM Is Here to Stay; What You Can Build Today; Private and Public Chains; Send and Receive Ether; Write Smart Contracts; Create Provably Fair Applications; Launch Your Own Token; The Promise of Decentralized Databases; What's Next: New Ways of Working; Summary; Chapter 2: The Mist Browser; Wallets as a Computing Metaphor; Your Address Is What?; Where Is My Ether? The Bank Teller MetaphorIn Cryptocurrency, You Hold Your Own Assets; Visualizing Ethereum Transactions; Breaking with Banking History; How Encryption Leads to Trust; System Requirements; More about Eth.guide and This Book; Tools for Developers; CLI Nodes; Recommended: Using Parity with Geth; Finally, into the Mist!; Downloading and Installing Mist; Configuring Mist; Finding Your New Address; Sending and Receiving Ether; Understanding Ethereum Account Types; Backing Up and Restoring Your Keys; Using Paper Wallets; Using Mobile Wallets; Working with Messages and Transactions. Transactions Change StateEditing a Global Database; So, What Is a Blockchain?; Paying for Transactions; Understanding Denominations; Getting Ether; Anonymity in Cryptocurrency; Blockchain Explorers; Summary; Chapter 3: The EVM; The Central Bank Network of Yesterday; What are Virtual Machines, Exactly?; The Role of the Ethereum Protocol in Banking; Anyone Can Make a Banking Platform; What the EVM Does; EVM Applications Are Called Smart Contracts; The Name "Smart Contracts"; The EVM Runs Bytecode; Understanding State Machines; Digital vs. Analog; "State-ments"; Data's Role in State.
• Publisher Details: Brooklyn, NY : Apress
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.74/1; Computer science; Electronic funds transfers; Bitcoin; Electronic commerce; Mobile commerce; Banks and banking -- Technological innovations; Financial institutions -- Technological innovations; COMPUTERS/Desktop Applications/Databases; COMPUTERS/Database Management/General; COMPUTERS/System Administration/Storage & Retrieval; Banks and banking -- Technological innovations; Bitcoin; Electronic commerce; Electronic funds transfers; Financial institutions -- Technological innovations; Mobile commerce; Business & Economics -- Information Management; Computers -- General; Computers -- Social Aspects -- General; Computers -- Hardware -- Personal Computers -- General; Information architecture; Computing & information technology; Ethical & social aspects of IT; Information technology: general issues; Personal computers; Open source software; Computer programming; Information Systems; Computer software; Computer industry; Computers -- Programming -- Open Source; Computer programming / software development; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781484225356; 1484225341; 9781484225349
• Related ISBNs: 148422535X; 9781484225349
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 24, 2017).
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