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Building Games with Ethereum Smart Contracts: Intermediate Projects for Solidity Developers
Author Chris Dannen , Kedar Iyer
Learn how to take your existing knowledge of Ethereum and Solidity to the next level. Hone your development skills and become more familiar with the syntax of the Solidity language by working through well-tested, well-documented intermediate-level sample projects.Y....
Release Date 2018/05 -
What Are Enterprise Blockchains?
Author Mike Loukides
Interest in the blockchain ledger that supports Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is rising in the tech community, particularly among planners in the enterprise. How will enterprise companies use blockchains? Many possibilities exist, such as recent efforts by Mae....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Author Saifedean Ammous
When a pseudonymous programmer introduced “a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party” to a small online mailing list in 2008, very few paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentral....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Blockchainopoly: How Blockchain Changes the Rules of the Game
Author Steve Hoberman
Learn how blockchain works, where to use it within your organization, and how it will impact data management.This book contains three parts:Explanation. Part I will explain will explain the concepts underlying blockchain. A precise and concise definition is pro....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Solidity Programming Essentials
Author Ritesh Modi
Learn the most powerful and primary programming language for writing smart contracts and find out how to write, deploy, and test smart contracts in Ethereum.About This BookGet you up and running with Solidity Programming languageBuild Ethereum Smart Contracts with ....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Developing Business, Law, and Technology Solutions
Author Michael Wuehler , Solomon Lederer , Rene Madsen , Kedar Iyer , Paul R. Allen , Joseph
Develop, validate, and deploy powerful decentralized applications using blockchain Get the most out of cutting-edge blockchain technology using the hands-on information contained in this comprehensive resource. Written by a team of technology and legal experts, Blo....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Blockchain Enabled Applications: Understand the Blockchain Ecosystem and How to Make it Work for You
Author Max Hooper , David Metcalf , Vikram Dhillon
Work with blockchain and understand its potential application beyond cryptocurrencies in the domains of healthcare, Internet of Things, finance, decentralized organizations, and open science. Featuring case studies and practical insights generated from a start-up s....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond
Author Jack Tatar , Chris Burniske
The innovative investor’s guide to an entirely new asset class—from two experts on the cutting edgeWith the rise of bitcoin and blockchain technology, investors can capitalize on the greatest investment opportunity since the Internet. Bitcoin was the first cryptoas....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Seeing Beyond the Blockchain Hype
Author Paul Michelman
Blockchain has recently taken center stage in the conversation about management’s digital makeover. Many believe the impact of blockchain on the ways organizations function and produce value may be greater than other technologies that have grabbed most of our....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Mastering Bitcoin, 2nd Edition
Author Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Join the technological revolution that’s taking the financial world by storm. Mastering Bitcoin is your guide through the seemingly complex world of bitcoin, providing the knowledge you need to participate in the internet of money. Whether you’re building the next ....
Release Date 2017/06 -
Author Tiana Laurence
Find out what Blockchain is, how it works, and what it can do for youBlockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin, the revolutionary 'virtual currency' that's changing the way people do business. While Bitcoin has enjoyed some well-deserved hype, Blockchain may b....
Release Date 2017/05 -
Author Chris Dannen
Learn how to use Solidity and the Ethereum project – second only to Bitcoin in market capitalization. Blockchain protocols are taking the world by storm, and the Ethereum project, with its Turing-complete scripting language Solidity, has rapidly become a front-runn....
Release Date 2017/03 -
Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps
Author Daniel Drescher
In 25 concise steps, you will learn the basics of blockchain technology. No mathematical formulas, program code, or computer science jargon are used. No previous knowledge in computer science, mathematics, programming, or cryptography is required. Terminology is ex....
Release Date 2017/03 -
Author Imran Bashir
Distributed ledgers, decentralization and smart contracts explainedAbout This BookGet to grips with the underlying technical principles and implementations of blockchain.Build powerful applications using Ethereum to secure transactions and create smart contracts.Ex....
Release Date 2017/03 -
The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory
Author Kariappa Bheemaiah
Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. This book explains how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to th....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Author Hossam Gabbar
Smart Energy Grid Engineering provides in-depth detail on the various important engineering challenges of smart energy grid design and operation by focusing on advanced methods and practices for designing different components and their integration within the grid. ....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Navigating the Patent Minefield Through Consortia
Author Gonzalo Camarillo , Annabelle Gawer , David Lopez-Berzosa
Bringing high-tech inventions built on patented technologies to market can be complicated and risky. The threat of added costs from patent infringement lawsuits has led technology companies to pool their talents — and patents — in technology consortia. ....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Author Siraj Raval
Take advantage of Bitcoin’s underlying technology, the blockchain, to build massively scalable, decentralized applications known as dapps. In this practical guide, author Siraj Raval explains why dapps will become more widely used—and profitable—than today’s most p....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Author Vitalik Buterin , William Mougayar
The definitive pioneering blueprint covering the what, why and how of the blockchain. Blockchains are new technology layers that rewire the Internet and threaten to side-step older legacy constructs and centrally served businesses. At its core, a blockchain injects....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Author Erick W. Rengifo , Emre Ozsoz
A very commonly observed phenomenon in developing and emerging market economies is the use of another country’s currency (whether the US dollar or another currency) in lieu or in addition to the local currency. The most common type of this financial phenomenon is p....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Author Albert Szmigielski
Gain insights into Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency and a powerful technology, to optimize your Bitcoin mining techniquesAbout This BookLearn how to use the advanced features of Bitcoin walletsSet up your Bitcoin mining operations to mine with efficiencyExplore what the f....
Release Date 2016/02 -
How Blockchain Will Change Organizations
Author Jenna Pilgrim , Alex Tapscott , Don Tapscott
Blockchain technology has the potential to transform how businesses are organized and managed. It allows companies to eliminate transaction costs and use outside resources as easily as internal resources. The implications for areas such as accounting, contract nego....
Release Date 2016/01 -
Author Richard Caetano
Embrace the new world of fiance by leveraging the power of crypto-currencies using Bitcoin and the BlockchainAbout This BookSet up your own wallet, buy and sell Bitcoin, and execute custom transactions on the BlockchainLeverage the power of Bitcoin to reduce transa....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Author Melanie Swan
Bitcoin is starting to come into its own as a digital currency, but the blockchain technology behind it could prove to be much more significant. This book takes you beyond the currency ("Blockchain 1.0") and smart contracts ("Blockchain 2.0") to demonstrate how the ....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Author Bob Rice
The first book to explain the new world of alternative investing, showing how anyone can use nontraditional options to significantly increase returns and lower risksThe world's elite investors have long relied on alternative investments to produce superior returns....
Release Date 2013/05 -
The Change Handbook, 2nd Edition
Author Steven Cady , Tom Devane , Peggy Holman
The Change Handbook features chapters by the originators and foremost practitioners of such high-leverage change methods as Future Search, Real Time Strategic Change, Gemba Kaizen, and Open Space Technology. The authors outline distinctive aspects of their app....
Release Date 2007/01