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Book Description

Simple, accessible, and fun to read, this practical book provides a fascinating collection of real-life stories from organizations that now use blockchain in practice. Sir John Hargrave and Evan Karnoupakis provide actionable takeaways and valuable lessons learned based on case studies from companies that have found success with this technology. This guide serves as a map to this fascinating new frontier.

Through dozens of interviews, you’ll take a journey with leading-edge organizations as they integrate blockchain into their business. You’ll start by gaining a solid background on blockchain and its potential to disrupt existing industries. From there, you’ll dive into the story-driven case studies, complete with user-friendly diagrams, from the first companies to successfully embrace this technology.

  • Explore real-life examples of leading companies now developing and integrating blockchain applications
  • Dive into engaging stories that show how a Napster founder and the team that created a $100 million virtual cat marketplace are using blockchain
  • Learn the pros and cons of using blockchain technology in your industry
  • Examine blockchain best practices within your industry and across industries
  • Understand the costs and benefits of blockchain and determine if this technology is worth pursuing
  • Learn how blockchain is used by companies in government, wireless telecommunications, the internet of things, collectibles, and more

Table of Contents

  1. 1. What Is Blockchain?
    1. Bitcoin: The “Big Bang” of Blockchain
      1. Why Bitcoin Has Value
      2. How Bitcoin Works
    2. The Decentralized Ledger
    3. Blockchain Is a Platform
  2. 2. Blockchain Building Blocks
    1. Decentralized Ledger Technology: The Beating Heart of Blockchain
    2. Nodes and Miners
    3. The Consensus Algorithm
      1. Proof of Work
      2. Proof of Stake
      3. Experimental consensus algorithms
  3. 3. Blockchain Principles
    1. Open It Up
    2. Eliminate the Intermediaries
    3. Code, Not Contracts
    4. Work It Out, Don’t Fork It Out 6
    5. Build Your Own Government
    6. Free, Instant, Scalable, Trusted
    7. Regulation: Evolution versus Revolution
    8. In Summary
  4. 4. Helium: A Blockchain-Based Wireless Network
    1. The Helium Origin Story
    2. Solving the Chicken-or-Egg Problem
    3. An Internet for the Internet of Things
    4. The Hotspot Heats Up
    5. Helium Tokenomics
    6. Funding and Team
    7. The Launch
    8. Lessons Learned
    9. Next Steps
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