1st Edition

Bitcoin and Blockchain History and Current Applications

296 Pages 186 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

296 Pages 186 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

296 Pages 186 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

In recent years, blockchain development has grown quickly from the original Bitcoin protocol to the second-generation Ethereum platform, and to today’s process of building third-generation blockchains. During this evolution, we can see how blockchain technology has evolved from its original form as a distributed database to becoming a fully fledged, globally distributed, cloud computing platform.... Read more

Chapter 1 Bitcoin: A P2P Digital Currency

Sathya A.R. and Ahmed A. Elngar

Chapter 2 Exploring the Bitcoin Network

Sathya A.R. and K. Varaprasada Rao

Chapter 3 Blockchain Technology: The Trust-Free Systems

Sathya A.R. and Ajay Kumar Jena

Chapter 4 Consensus and Mining in a Nutshell

Sathya A.R. and Santosh Kumar Swain

Chapter 5 Blockchain: Introduction to the Technology behind Shared Information

Naseem Ahamed

Chapter 6 Growth of Financial Transaction toward Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology

Chiranji Lal Chowdhary

Chapter 7 A Brief Overview of Blockchain Algorithm and Its Impact upon Cloud-Connected Environment

Subhasish Mohapatra and Smita Parija

Chapter 8 Solidity Essentials

Parv Garg and Neeraj Khadse

Chapter 9 Installing Frameworks, Deploying, and Testing Smart Contracts in Ethereum Platform

Tushar Sharma

Chapter 10 Blockchain in Healthcare Sector

S. Porkodi and D. Kesavaraja

Chapter 11 Blockchain Theories and Its Applications

Jaipal Dhobale and Vaibhav Mishra

Chapter 12 Building Permissioned Blockchain Networks Using Hyperledger Fabric

K. Varaprasada Rao, Mutyala Sree Teja, P. Praneeth Reddy, and S. Saikrishna

Chapter 13 Fraud-Resistant Crowdfunding System Using Ethereum Blockchain

Sandeep Kumar Panda

 

Biography

Sandeep Kumar Panda, Ahmed A. Elngar, Valentina Emilia Balas, Mohammed Kayed