Blockchain Beyond Basics
Introducing you to the world of Blockchain, an AI perspective to the Blockchain World with detailed videos to make concepts easier to understand, Get hands on technical details to create NFTs, Tokens, Flash-loan algos, and more.
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About The Book
This book is aimed at newcomers to the concept of Blockchain, enthusiasts, explorists who like to learn about the concept of Blockchain in simple terms with simple easy to understand stories. This book is aimed at providing a practical guidance and approach for utilizing Blockchain and associated technologies in the real world. You are not expected to be an expert in Solidity, Web3, Javascript or Python at all. The book is intended for newcomers in the field of blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially for those, who do not have any background, but are really interested to learn the details and approach of building a decentralized Web3 application utilizing the Blockchain ecosystem.
Honestly speaking, the book is meant for “lazy” engineers, aspiring blockchain, solidity developers, Web3 programming engineers, and experienced IT professionals in other fields, who like the authors, hate reading through lengthy books with several hundred pages of mathematical models and equations to even getting started with Blockchain. Many of us are looking for a book with not more than 150-180 pages to gain a very fundamental understanding of the Blockchain ecosystems, and create own NFTs. There are many books, articles, books, guides, and documents published on Blockchain, and most of them either focused on smart contracts solely or web3 reference books and most often they tend to be very lengthy, spanning several hundred pages. Of course, they are aimed at serving exhaustive content for readers to get a deep understanding of the subjects.
The aim of this book is not only to just expose the decentralized world of Blockchain, but also to focus on explaining the core working mechanics of Blockchain, NFTs, Smart Contracts, and Cryptocurrencies with simple examples on. As you read through the book, hopefully, the myths of cryptocurrencies, tokens, and NFTs would be debunked, and you will get a very granular/basic to an implementation-level understanding and approach of developing decentralized applications.
What’s inside
The Story of Blockchain
Create your own tokens
Web3 on node.js
Solidity Programming
Create your own NFTs
Web3 using python - Google Colab
Chapter 1
What is Blockchain?
A blockchain is a decentralized, distributed digital ledger that records transactions across multiple computers. It consists of a growing list of records, called blocks, which are cryptographically linked and protected. Each block contains a timestamp and a link to the previous block, forming a chain.
The decentralized nature of a blockchain means that it is not controlled by a single entity, such as a bank or a government. Instead, it is maintained by a network of computers, called nodes, which validate and record transactions on the blockchain, ultimately forming a chain.
One of the main advantages of blockchain is that it enables secure and transparent recording of transactions. Since the records of a blockchain are spread across (distributed) multiple computers, it is difficult for a single entity to alter or tamper with the data. This makes it a safe, secure and a reliable way to track and verify transactions. Blockchains are used in a variety of applications, including cryptocurrency, supply chain management, and voting systems. They are also the basis for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), which are unique digital assets that represent ownership of a specific item or asset.
Albert Einstein once said: “ If you cannot explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”.
So, let us understand the concept of blockchain in a very simple language. Please refer to the diagram 1.3.0 below. Elon and Bill are the roommates for the first 3 weeks, and then Jeff will be joining them from the 3rd week onwards. Following is a flow of transactions that could help set up the scenario.
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The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the decentralized world of blockchain technology. It covers the core mechanics of blockchain, including non-fungible tokens (NFTs), smart contracts, and cryptocurrencies. The goal is to help readers gain a deep understanding of these concepts and how to use them to develop decentralized applications. The book also aims to clarify common misconceptions about cryptocurrencies, tokens, and NFTs.
About the author.
Naresh R. Jasotani is a Googler with over 17 years of experience in helping customers to get benefits of data, analytics and artificial intelligence advancements. With Blockchain and AI picking up in the last few years, he believes that it has brought endless possibilities for businesses to make data-based decisions, and be more predictive in their thought process, while being decentralized. Naresh currently works at Google as an Innovation Leader in AI, ML & Blockchain domains. In the past, he worked for companies like Infosys, TCS, Accenture and Miracle Software Systems. He enjoys taking up new challenges, understanding customers’ business problems and coming up with innovative solutions that can be solved by collecting, understanding, designing data, analytics and Machine learning solutions. He loves flying planes and has a Pilot’s License as well.
At the time of writing and conceptualizing this book (in 2022-23) the authors ensured to keep the content precise, and limit the length of the book in the range of 150-180 pages for those “lazy” but smart technologists out there.
Naresh Jasotani
Ajay R Jha is an entrepreneur with over 17 years of experience in IT, web development, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and ERP systems implementations. He is currently the C.E.O. of Simplomatic Ind. Pvt. ltd. In the past he has founded, excelled and sold a bunch of startups. He has held many positions at executive level, and he is currently a member of the board of directors at Quantalgo AI, a company that focuses on trading stocks and cryptos. He is very passionate about understanding customers’ business problems and coming up with innovative and simple solutions.
Deepraj S. Chauhan brings over 17 years of experience in data, analytics and artificial intelligence. Deepraj currently works at Miracle Software Systems in the AI, ML and blockchain domains. In the past, he worked for companies like Cognizant, Oracle. He believes that Machine Learning and AI can really help change the world it is today. He shares that a similar thought process for AI has brought endless possibilities for businesses to make data-based decisions, and be more predictive in their thought process. He enjoys taking up new challenges, and coming up with innovative and simple solutions that can be solved by data, analytics, blockchain and Machine learning solutions.
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Book covers the core mechanics of blockchain, including non-fungible tokens (NFTs), smart contracts, and cryptocurrencies. The goal is to help readers gain a deep understanding of these concepts and how to use them to develop decentralized applications. The book also aims to clarify common misconceptions about cryptocurrencies, tokens, and NFTs.
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