Book HackSecure ChainsBy Abhishek Bhattacharya, Srinivas Mahankali, Gokul B Alex
In a Nutshell
This book covers blockchain technology from its foundation to the finer confines of use cases and applications, with a special focus on cybersecurity.
Favorite Quote
Blockchain: It Came, It Saw, It Conquered. Our lives started getting revolutionized by this technology even before we realized, and it will continue to influence our work long beyond what we can imagine. Things have changed now; let's get used to it.
Abhishek Bhattacharya
Introduction
Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that allows secure and transparent record-keeping of transactions without the need for intermediaries. Every blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT), but every DLT is not a blockchain.
The first-ever Bitcoin transaction in 2009 was used to purchase two pizzas, which cost 10,000 bitcoins at the time and would be worth over $600 million today. Would you be able to digest such a pizza?
Abhishek Bhattacharya has been a serial entrepreneur, author, and faculty to thousands. He has delivered multiple talks on blockchain on global stages and is an Ethereum Foundation Fellow, one in seven globally.
The author was honored on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2022 list for his work in helping smallholder and marginal farmers with the use of blockchain technology.
Bhattacharya's book Secure Chains is aimed at people looking to enter the domain of blockchain technology — from a technical standpoint or otherwise.
Here are the 3 key insights from this Hack
- 1.Blockchain technology obliterates the shortcomings of centralization
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