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1 online resource |
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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? |
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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. |
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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? |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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-runner. This book presents the blockchain phenomenon in context; then situates Ethereum in a world pioneered by Bitcoin. See why professionals and non-professionals alike are honing their skills in smart contract patterns and distributed application development. You'll review the fundamentals of programming and networking, alongside its introduction to the new discipline of crypto-economics. You'll then deploy smart contracts of your own, and learn how they can serve as a back-end for JavaScript and HTML applications on the Web. Many Solidity tutorials out there today have the same flaw: they are written for"advanced" JavaScript developers who want to transfer their skills to a blockchain environment. Introducing Ethereum and Solidity is accessible to technology professionals and enthusiasts of "all levels." You'll find exciting sample code that can move forward real world assets in both the academic and the corporate arenas. Find out now why this book is a powerful gateway for creative technologists of all types, from concept to deployment. |
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Electronic funds transfers.
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Bitcoin.
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Electronic commerce.
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Mobile commerce.
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Banks and banking -- Technological innovations.
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Financial institutions -- Technological innovations.
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Computer Science. |
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Open Source. |
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Management of Computing and Information Systems. |
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Professional Computing. |
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Computers and Society. |
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The Computing Profession. |
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Personal Computing. |
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Transferts électroniques de fonds. |
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Bitcoin. |
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Commerce électronique. |
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Commerce mobile. |
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Institutions financières -- Innovations. |
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Bitcoin. |
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Information architecture. |
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Computing & information technology. |
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Ethical & social aspects of IT. |
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Information technology: general issues. |
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Personal computers. |
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Computer programming -- software development. |
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Banks and banking -- Technological innovations |
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Bitcoin |
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Electronic commerce |
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Electronic funds transfers |
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Financial institutions -- Technological innovations |
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Mobile commerce |
| Other Form: |
Printed edition: 9781484225349 |
| ISBN |
9781484225356 (electronic bk.) |
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148422535X (electronic bk.) |
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1484225341 |
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9781484225349 |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-1-4842-2535-6 doi |
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10.1007/978-1-4842-2 |
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