The Science of the Blockchain (Inverted Forest Publishing)

FinTech developers and managers understand that the blockchain has the potential to disrupt the financial world. The blockchain allows the participants of a distributed system to agree on a common view of the system, to track changes in the system, in a reliable way. In the distributed systems community, agreement techniques have been known long before cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (where the term blockchain is borrowed) emerged. Various concepts and protocols exist, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. This book introduces the basic techniques when building fault-tolerant distributed systems, in a scientific way. We will present different protocols and algorithms that allow for fault-tolerant operation, and we will discuss practical systems that implement these techniques.

金融科技開發人員和管理者了解到區塊鏈有潛力顛覆金融界。區塊鏈使得分散系統的參與者能夠就系統達成共識，以可靠的方式追蹤系統的變化。在分散系統社群中，早在比特幣（其中借用了區塊鏈一詞）等加密貨幣出現之前，就已經存在著共識技術。各種概念和協議都存在，各有優缺點。本書以科學的方式介紹了構建容錯分散系統的基本技術。我們將介紹不同的協議和算法，以實現容錯操作，並討論實際應用這些技術的系統。