Blockchain Tutorials

Complied By Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Gowri Sankar Ramachandran, Martin Arturo Martinez Espinoza, Pavas Navaney, and Shen Zhun

What is Blockchain?

Blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin, seems to be the driving technology behind the next generation of Internet, also referred to as the Decentralized Web, or the Web3. Blockchain is a novel solution to the age-old human problem of trust. It provides an architecture for so-called trustless trust. It allows us to trust the outputs of the system without trusting any actor within it…

Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies

The Bitcoin White Paper was published by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008; the first Bitcoin block got mined in 2009. Since the Bitcoin protocol is open source, anyone could take the protocol, fork it (modify the code), and start their own version of P2P money. Many so-called altcoins emerged and tried to be a better, faster or more anonymous than Bitcoin. Soon the code was not only altered to create better cryptocurrencies, but some projects also tried to alter the idea of blockchain beyond the use case of P2P…

BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES: A TUTORIAL FOR ENGINEERING FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS

With the soaring price of Bitcoin, and other initial coin offerings raising vast amounts of money this year, some are excited while others fear we are in the midst of another financial bubble. But, setting aside the financial speculation, there is significant potential for engineering innovations and social impact using the Blockchain technologies underlying cryptocurrencies…

A Beginner’s Guide to Smart Contracts

One of the best things about the blockchain is that, because it is a decentralized system that exists between all permitted parties, there’s no need to pay intermediaries (Middlemen) and it saves you time and conflict. Blockchains have their problems, but they are rated, undeniably, faster, cheaper, and more secure than traditional systems, which is why banks and governments are turning to them.

In 1994, Nick Szabo, a legal scholar…

Hyperledger Fabric

If you continue watching the videos, there is a playlist with everything about what is the fabric and applications as well as installation tutorials.

Model and Test Your Blockchain Network

This tutorial gets you started developing a blockchain network. I’ll introduce you to Hyperledger Composer and its user interface, Hyperledger Composer Playground, where you can model and test your network with nothing more than Docker and your web browser.

In Part 2, you’ll learn how to refine and deploy your blockchain network, and in Part 3, you’ll see how to install Hyperledger Fabric on your computer, deploy your business network to your local instance, and interact with the sample network blockchain application…