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

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