Blockchain for real world applications
"Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is a technical infrastructure and protocol that allows simultaneous access, verification and updating of records in an irreversible manner over a network spanning multiple entities or locations. It can be a Blockchain, Directed Acylic Graph, Hashgraph, Holoc...
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, New Jersey
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
2023
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 9.1 Data Science 193
- 9.2 Education and Employment Verification 194
- 9.3 Health Care 204
- 9.4 Genomics 210
- 9.5 Food Supply Chain 211
- 9.6 Real Estate 213
- 9.7 Crowd Operations 216
- 10 Banking and Finance 227
- 10.1 Banking and Investment 227
- 10.2 Trade Finance 236
- 10.3 Auction Process 248
- 10.4 Decentralized Finance 263
- 10.5 Prediction Markets 286
- 11 Growing Landscape of Blockchain 297
- 11.1 Blockchain Applications in Real World: An Overview 297
- 11.2 e-Governance 297
- 11.3 Supply Chain Management 305
- 11.4 e-Commerce 310
- 11.5 Distributed Resources and Internet of Things 317
- 11.6 Decentralized Streaming 320
- 12 Functional Mechanism 329
- 12.1 Software Requirements 329
- 12.2 Installing a Mobile Application 330
- 12.3 Fetching or Uploading the Documents 331
- 12.4 Government or Third-party Access 335
- 12.5 Credibility Through Smart Contracts 336
- 12.6 User-Optimized Features 337
- Appendices 339
- Glossary 347
- Index 371
- 5.5 Working of Hyperledger 74
- 5.6 Ethereum Versus Hyperledger 79
- 5.7 Decentralized Applications 81
- 5.8 Tokens 84
- 6 Identity as a Panacea for the Real World 87
- 6.1 Identity Systems 87
- 6.2 Centralized Model 92
- 6.3 Cost and Benefits 100
- 6.4 Quest for One World – One Identity 108
- 7 Decentralized Identities 115
- 7.1 Identity Models 115
- 7.2 Block chain-based Solutions 117
- 7.3 Identity Management 119
- 7.4 Identity Storage Interplanetary File System 121
- 7.5 Biometric Solutions 130
- 7.6 Identity Access 139
- 7.7 Merits of a Proposed System 141
- 7.8 Disadvantages of the Proposed System 144
- 7.9 Challenges 145
- 7.10 Solutions with Hyperledger Fabric 146
- 8 Encryption and Cybersecurity 151
- 8.1 Cryptography 151
- 8.2 Playfair Cipher 153
- 8.3 Hill Cipher 167
- 8.4 RSA Algorithm in Cryptography 171
- 8.5 Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library 175
- 8.6 SHA-512 Hash in Java 180
- 8.7 Cybersecurity 183
- 9 Data Management 193
- Illustrations xix
- Foreword xxv
- Preface xxvii
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Distributed Ledger Technology 11
- 2.1 Different Types of Distributed Ledger Technology 11
- 2.2 Chronological Evolution 13
- 2.3 Blockchain Architecture 15
- 3 Blockchain Ecosystem 23
- 3.1 Working of Blockchain 24
- 3.2 Key Characteristics 29
- 3.3 Unspent Transaction Output 30
- 3.4 Classification of Blockchain on Access Management 30
- 3.5 Consensus 32
- 3.6 Payment Verification in Blockchain 37
- 3.7 Hashgraph 39
- 3.8 Scalability 40
- 4 Transactions in Bitcoin Blockchain 43
- 4.1 Coinbase Transactions 43
- 4.2 Transactions Involving Fiat Currency 47
- 4.3 Top Fiat Currencies for Bitcoin Transactions 50
- 4.4 Price Determination for Bitcoin in Transactions 51
- 4.5 Controlling Transaction Costs in Bitcoin 57
- 5 Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric 67
- 5.1 Early Attempts to Program Cryptocurrencies 68
- 5.2 Smart Contracts 69
- 5.3 Working of Ethereum 72
- 5.4 Hyperledger 74
- Includes bibliographical references and index