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E-raamat: Executive Guide to Blockchain: Using Smart Contracts and Digital Currencies in your Business

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  • ISBN-13: 9783030211073
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Keeping up with fast evolving technology is a challenge that every business leader faces. As organisations start to wake up to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, its becoming more important than ever to be able to utilise and exploit new digital platforms.





With the simple aim of demystifying blockchain for business leaders, The Executive Guide to Blockchain offers a jargon-free explanation and framework to better understand blockchain technologies and their impact on organizations. Enabling any business leader with or without specific computing knowledge to reap the benefits of blockchain whilst understanding the limitations, this book will empower you to:













Identify opportunities for blockchain in your own business sectors Understand smart contracts and their relationship with the law Create a blockchain strategy and business case Implement blockchain technologies and maximise their potential.





















Written by experts in non-technical language, this practical resource can be applied to any industry, and arm you with the knowledge needed to capture the possibilities of digital business.
1 Introduction
1(6)
A Driver for Change---Or a Bubble About to Burst?
4(1)
Giving You the Facts---Chapter by
Chapter
5(2)
2 Beyond the Hype
7(16)
Bitcoin: A Currency Born Out of Crisis
8(1)
Hitting a Bump in the Road
8(1)
Expansion
9(2)
Blockchain---A Success Story?
11(1)
What Are Cryptocurrencies?
12(1)
Are Cryptocurrencies Really Money?
12(5)
Blockchain Gets Smart
17(2)
Regulation
19(4)
3 Cryptography for Busy People
23(18)
Why Cryptography?
24(5)
Brute Force Attacks
27(1)
Guessing a Key
28(1)
Staying Secure
29(9)
Shared Key Cryptography
30(2)
Public Key Cryptography
32(3)
Digital Signatures
35(3)
How Is This Relevant to Blockchain?
38(1)
Summary
38(1)
Frequently Asked Questions
39(2)
4 Bitcoin and Blockchain: The Fundamentals
41(30)
What Is Blockchain Technology?
41(2)
Privacy, Anonymity and the Double-Spending Problem
43(3)
How Does Bitcoin Work?
46(11)
How Are Transactions Processed?
47(2)
How Do Miners Make a Living?
49(2)
The Case for PoW
51(2)
How Does the PoW Work?
53(3)
Orphan Blocks and the Longest Chain
56(1)
The Bitcoin Network
57(7)
The Forks or the Soft Touch of Humans
58(2)
Querying the Ledger
60(1)
Security in Bitcoin and the 51% Attack
61(1)
Who Generates the Addresses in Bitcoin?
62(2)
Has Bitcoin Fulfilled Its Original Purpose?
64(2)
Summary
66(1)
Frequently Asked Questions
67(4)
5 The Rise and Rise of Cryptocurrencies
71(22)
How Do I Use Bitcoin?
71(2)
More Than One Way to Buy Your Daily Bread---Or Chocolates!
73(4)
Cryptomarket---An Overview
77(7)
Maintaining Privacy
82(2)
Payment Platforms
84(5)
Current Payment Systems
85(1)
Transferring Money in the Same Country
85(1)
Cross-Border Payments
86(1)
Payment Through Blockchain
87(2)
Summary
89(1)
Frequently Asked Questions
90(3)
6 When and Why to Use Blockchain
93(28)
Who Is Using Blockchain?
93(1)
Blockchain as a Problem Solver
94(1)
Boldly Creating Trust Where None Has Gone Before
95(1)
When Blockchain Isn't the Answer
96(1)
Centralisation Versus Decentralisation
97(3)
Blockchain for Enterprises
100(4)
It Looks Like a Blockchain but...
104(3)
Case Studies
107(9)
Timestamping Documents
108(1)
Supply Chain Management
109(2)
Trade Finance
111(3)
Compliance
114(1)
Land Registry
114(2)
Challenges
116(2)
Voting Systems
117(1)
Personal Data and the Blockchain
118(1)
Summary
118(1)
Frequently Asked Questions
119(2)
7 Blockchain Strategy
121(12)
If Blockchain Is the Answer What's the Question?
121(10)
Step 1 Assessing Your Needs
121(3)
Step 2 Looking for the Solution
124(2)
Step 3 Finding the Technology That Works for You
126(2)
Step 4 Prototype
128(1)
Step 5 Validation
129(1)
Step 6 Scale
130(1)
Going Alone
131(1)
Summary
131(2)
8 Smart Contracts
133(18)
How Smart Is a Smart Contract?
133(1)
Myth Busting and the Role of Smart Contracts
134(2)
A Brief History of Smart Contracts
136(2)
Where Does the Blockchain Fit In?
138(6)
AXA's Flight Delay Compensation Insurance
140(2)
Company Funding Using Smart Contracts
142(1)
The Smart Contract of The DAO
143(1)
The Legal Side
144(2)
When Automation Isn't the Answer
146(1)
Smart Contracts in the Financial Sector
146(1)
How Will Smart Contracts Affect My Business?
147(1)
Summary
148(1)
Frequently Asked Questions
148(3)
9 Regulation
151(12)
Why Regulation Is Needed
151(2)
ICOs
153(6)
Still Interested in Tokens?
159(1)
The Status of Cryptocurrencies
159(1)
Taxation
160(1)
Exchanges and Secondary Markets
160(1)
Technology
161(1)
Summary
162(1)
10 The Future of the Blockchain
163(10)
What Does the Future Hold for Blockchain?
163(7)
Have Cryptocurrencies Peaked?
165(1)
Quantum of Solace, or a Major Threat to Blockchain?
166(2)
Will Central Banks Get on Board the Cryptocurrency Train?
168(2)
The Future of Cross-Border Payments
170(1)
The Dream of a Decentralised Society
171(2)
A Useful Resources 173(8)
Glossary 181(2)
Bibliography 183(8)
Index 191
Maria Grazia Vigliotti is the founder of Sandblocks Consulting, a boutique consultancy specialising in blockchain technology and smart contracts. Her career in computing spans more than twenty years, mainly as an academic at Imperial College London researching techniques for formal code verification and writing AI algorithms to aid in cybersecurity evaluations. She convened and led the development of the cybersecurity strategy for the entire British railway industry and worked on prevention of cryptographic attacks on the European Railway Traffic Management Systems (ERTMS). She has also advised most of the major players in the UK nuclear industry on smart device security.

Haydn Jones is the Founder and Managing Director of Blockchain Hub. He has over twenty years commercial, operational and transformation experience working for retail and investment banks, a central bank, a regulator, a global management consultancy firm and a Japanese technology company. He has run cash management and funding units, as well as foreign exchange and equities settlement teams, alongside leading projects to re-engineer the underlying platforms. He has worked in architecturally complex, data rich environments, grappling with the challenge of reconciling legacy and leading edge technologies across client-sensitive platforms demanding high levels of availability.