Jump to ratings and reviews
Rate this book

Blockchain For Dummies

Rate this book
Blockchain For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, helps you understand what blockchain is, how it works, and how it can enhance your business networks. Understand how this innovative technology can apply to your industry and how you can get started building on blockchain today.

41 pages, ebook

Published January 1, 2017

13 people are currently reading
92 people want to read

About the author

Manav Gupta

6 books1 follower

Ratings & Reviews

What do you think?
Rate this book

Friends & Following

Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!

Community Reviews

5 stars
5 (4%)
4 stars
34 (31%)
3 stars
46 (42%)
2 stars
21 (19%)
1 star
3 (2%)
Displaying 1 - 19 of 19 reviews
Profile Image for Ahmad hosseini.
320 reviews73 followers
February 27, 2018
This book equips you with an understanding of what blockchain is, how it works, and how it can enhance your business and the industry in which it operates.
The first 3 chapters introduce blockchain concepts. Chapter 4 includes some use cases of blockchain. The last two chapter are an ad for IBM projects called Bluemix.
Profile Image for Agatha Palencia.
11 reviews2 followers
April 11, 2019
Primeros pasos con tecnología blockchain. Este libro te enseña de forma teórica qué es blockchain y cuándo tiene sentido aplicarla, además comparte algunos ejemplos con casos de uso. Si estás iniciándote en blockchain puede ser un buen comienzo y además es fácil y rápido de leer aún siendo en inglés.
23 reviews
September 29, 2017
The first 3 chapters are an excellent introduction to the concepts behind blockchain, why it's useful and why you might want to use it. The 4th chapter shows how companies are already utilizing blockchain tech to smooth out frictions in business processes. The last two chapters are basically an ad for IBM and a project they're working on with The Linux Foundation named Hyperledger and Hyperledger Fabric. Worth the read if you're interested in blockchain but are confused by some of the common terms thrown around.
Profile Image for Marcos.
114 reviews
April 24, 2018
Después de muchos años leyendo papers, posts en Medium y otros blogs sobre el tema, decidí arrancar un libro sobre blockchain, más que nada para poder familiarizar ciertos conceptos a colegas y amigos que quieren saber del tema.

Está bueno para tener una idea de los conceptos básicos, pero no es nada nuevo de lo que se pueda leer en cualquier lado. Sinceramente, no me aportó mucho haber leído este ebook.

Sí, está bueno que aborde casos de aplicación de blockchain (como ejemplo está Hyperledger que es una plataforma similar a Ethereum, pero para empresas) y sí, también se simplifica muchísimo el tema (casi 9 años de desarrollo, reducidos a muy pocos párrafos con palabras clave).
Algo no menor es que está hecho por gente de IBM, lo cual proporciona información sesgada y que defiende obviamente los intereses de UNA empresa, cuando a la red la formamos bocha de personas con bocha de intereses pero, SIEMPRE vamos a apoyar la descentralización y la distribuición de los nodos e ideas, que es justamente lo que promueve el desarrollo de bitcoin (como ejemplo de una de las aplicaciones más usadas y pionera en esto), así como de tantísimas otras utilidades.
10 reviews
April 29, 2024
Krótkie wprowadzenie do świata blockchain. Napisane prostym i łatwym językiem. Brak tutaj technikaliów a jedynie wysokopoziomowe opisanie technologii i jej potencjalnych zastosowań. Książka skupia się na biznesowej stronie zastosowania blockchainow i pomija kwestie kryptowalut.
Książka pisana z pomocą IBM wiec znalazły się też rozdziały „sponsorowane” opisujące jak technologie oferowane przez IBM pomogą w ew. wdrożeniach.

Całkiem fajna opcja dla osób bez żadnego rozeznania w tej materii chcących zrozumieć na bardzo wysokim poziomie o co chodzi.
96 reviews1 follower
December 2, 2017
A marketing campaign by IBM disguised as a book.
Profile Image for Radu Dascalu.
3 reviews2 followers
December 26, 2017
I felt like the content was getting a bit repetitive after a while, too much IBM specific info and I would've liked a more technical explanation in some areas.
Profile Image for Danny.
9 reviews
March 3, 2018
Pretty okey, scratches the surface. First 3 chapters are quite interesting, the chapter about Hyper*something* I've skipped as it felt like advertisement.
1 review
April 19, 2018
An initiation to the blockchain. The book provides definition, use cases & applications for this technology.
Profile Image for Nour Al-Mohammad.
41 reviews56 followers
Read
April 20, 2018
If you're gonna read it for technical details "Don't", it provides general information only (things you can find on Wikipedia)
Profile Image for Samer.
1 review1 follower
July 11, 2018
It's just a boasting marketing book for IBM blockChain; too exaggerating on how blockchain can solve everything in business and life.
Profile Image for Sahil.
26 reviews
June 1, 2020
Great guide to get started with blockchain, with all basic guildlines and cases.
30 reviews1 follower
January 30, 2021
Very small book that introduces the concept of blockchain, the people involved in the mechanism of blockchain, some examples of the use of blockchain. Tantalizing and I will read more on the subject.
Profile Image for Mallika.
51 reviews6 followers
January 20, 2022
Pretty good primer and short read. I’ll probably refer back to this book.
4 reviews
April 5, 2022
Feels like reading an advertisement brochure of IBM solutions for businesses. Though I still have a desire to find out more about blockchains.
Profile Image for Michael.
6 reviews
July 22, 2021
It helped me understand the business aspect of Blockchain, having laid the foundation for Blockchain basics in the first two chapters... I will be reading next about IBM Blockchain in action in next few chapters. I love the book because it explains very good with real world examples and it helped me improve my knowledge of how Blockchain is affecting business.
Displaying 1 - 19 of 19 reviews

Can't find what you're looking for?

Get help and learn more about the design.