Blockchain Technology: From Theory to Practice

Blockchain is an emerging technology platform for developing decentralized applications and data storage, over and beyond its role as the technology underlying the crypurrencies. The basic tenet of this platform is that it allows one to create a distributed and replicated ledger of events, transactions, and data generated through various IT processes with strong cryptographic guarantees of tamper resistance, immutability, and verifiability. Public blockchain platforms allow us to guarantee ...