Drescher, Daniel
Blockchain Basics
Part I. Terminology and Technical Foundations
1. Thinking in Layers and Aspects
Daniel Drescher
2. Seeing the Big Picture
Daniel Drescher
3. Recognizing the Potential
Daniel Drescher
Part II. Why the Blockchain Is Needed
4. Discovering the Core Problem
Daniel Drescher
5. Disambiguating the Term
Daniel Drescher
6. Understanding the Nature of Ownership
Daniel Drescher
7. Spending Money Twice
Daniel Drescher
Part III. How the Blockchain Works
8. Planning the Blockchain
Daniel Drescher
9. Documenting Ownership
Daniel Drescher
10. Hashing Data
Daniel Drescher
11. Hashing in the Real World
Daniel Drescher
12. Identifying and Protecting User Accounts
Daniel Drescher
13. Authorizing Transactions
Daniel Drescher
14. Storing Transaction Data
Daniel Drescher
15. Using the Data Store
Daniel Drescher
16. Protecting the Data Store
Daniel Drescher
17. Distributing the Data Store Among Peers
Daniel Drescher
18. Verifying and Adding Transactions
Daniel Drescher
19. Choosing a Transaction History
Daniel Drescher
20. Paying for Integrity
Daniel Drescher
21. Bringing the Pieces Together
Daniel Drescher
Part IV. Limitations and Their Solutions
22. Seeing the Limitations
Daniel Drescher
23. Reinventing the Blockchain
Daniel Drescher
Part V. Using the Blockchain, Summary, and Outlook
24. Using the Blockchain
Daniel Drescher
25. Summarizing and Going Further
Daniel Drescher
Keywords: Computer Science, Database Management, Data Encryption, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Data Storage Representation, Banking, Capital Markets
- Author(s)
- Drescher, Daniel
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 15 pages
- Category
- Information Technology, Telecommunications
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781484226049
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-4842-2603-2