Read “Mastering Blockchain”

One day, I encountered Mastering Blockchain. When the book was available with some discount, I purchased it and I finished reading it lately.

I was able to enjoy reading the book since I have some knowledge of distributed system especially the Byzantine General Problem in theoretical aspect and cryptography.

We can lean not only the Blockchain and its implementations but also the more fundamental knowledge such as what distributed system is and cryptography. It’s essential thing than concrete implementations. If the implementation is disrupted, you can implement other way or new way because you know the fundamental stuff.

I strongly feel again. Lately, academical/scientific stuff and industrial stuff become closer. For me, it’s very exciting things though.

I left my thought for the book which I’ve posted on Twitter.

The block chain book picks up distributed systems includes the Byzantine General Problems and CAP theorem as well. They are common in that world, interesting

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) February 22, 2018

The next topic is historical stuff like a time travel of the relevant implementations/techniques

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) February 22, 2018

Ah, the algorithm is majorly based trusted approach.

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) February 27, 2018

Centralised, decentralised, distributed

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) February 27, 2018

quite nostalgic for the distributed hash table

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) February 27, 2018

Explain Cryptography world in detail using mathematics.

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) February 28, 2018

”The discrete logarithm problem in ECC is based on the idea that under certain conditions, all points on an elliptic curve form a cyclic group.
O” one sentence in the cryptography

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) March 4, 2018

Oh… That shows us hash functions as well. DHTs.

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) March 4, 2018

That story stepped into the Bitcoin in chapter 4, finally.

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) March 4, 2018

”The current size of the bitcoin blockchain as on February 4, 2017, stands at approximately 101 GB.” oh, it’s easy to image the size will be significant and we should handle the amount well. The problem is same for electronic data in general, btw.

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) March 4, 2018

Co processors to reduce the power. Less s number of transactions.

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) March 4, 2018

”Smart contracts usually operate by managing their internal state using a state machine model.” it has no standard way.

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) March 4, 2018

Step into the Ethereum blockchain in the chapter 10.

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) March 4, 2018

The book shows us the spec of each implementation. Ah.

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) March 4, 2018

Finished. I skipped some concrete implementations, btw. Engineers who implement toolchain for that should read that part though.

— KazuCocoa (@Kazu_cocoa) March 4, 2018

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