Blockchain For Dummies

Name: Blockchain For Dummies
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Tiana Laurence
ISBN: 9781630154677

Author: Tiana Laurence

Narrator: Marie Hoffman

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/25/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Computers, Computers & Technology, Computer Security

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Blockchain 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 be Bitcoin's most vital legacy. Blockchain For Dummies is the ideal starting place for business pros looking to gain a better understanding of what Blockchain is, how it can improve the integrity of their data, and how it can work to fundamentally change their business and enhance their data security.

Blockchain For Dummies covers the essential things you need to know about this exciting technology's promise of revolutionizing financial transactions, data security, and information integrity. The book covers the technologies behind Blockchain, introduces a variety of existing Blockchain solutions, and even walks you through creating a small but working Blockchain-based application.

Blockchain holds the promise to revolutionize a wide variety of businesses. Get in the know about Blockchain now with Blockchain For Dummies and be ready to make the changes to business that your colleagues and competitors will later wish they'd done.

About Tiana Laurence

Tiana Laurence is a cofounder of Factom, a company that provides blockchain-based solutions for many business uses, including enhanced security for IoT. Factom has been named one of the twenty most influential blockchain companies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cooper on March 08, 2021

As someone who came in with relatively zero experience in blockchain and blockchain technologies, I left with about that much after this book. This book started out surprisingly well and helped me gain a bit more of the fundamentals of blockchain technology, but after understanding the data type and......more

Goodreads review by Tom on September 16, 2019

I read the first several chapters of this book that was loaned to me to get a basic understanding of the blockchain technology and I scanned the remaining chapters to get an appreciation of some of the applications in use now and planned for the future. It met my casual needs but the book is better......more

Goodreads review by BCS on November 07, 2017

Blockchain and related technologies such as digital currencies are recently receiving significant media attention, being hailed as the “fifth evolution” of computing. However, it can be a little hard to get a grasp on exactly what these technologies are, how they work, how they can be used and what......more

Goodreads review by Paul on December 11, 2023

If one is thinking about investing in Crypto Stock then this is a must-read. This book clarifies that Polkadot, Cardano,Solana are essentially projects that try out different concensus methods, validator selection methods, mining pay methods. Chances are in the long run after reading this book I exp......more