Mastering Ethereum

Written by Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood Ph. D.

Narrated by Jonathan Goehring

Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps (Abridged Edition)

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood Ph. D.

Ethereum represents the gateway to a worldwide, decentralized computing paradigm. This platform enables you to run decentralized applications (DApps) and smart contracts that have no central points of failure or control, integrate with a payment network, and operate on an open blockchain. With this practical guide, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood provide everything you need to know about building smart contracts and DApps on Ethereum and other virtual-machine blockchains.

Discover why IBM, Microsoft, NASDAQ, and hundreds of other organizations are experimenting with Ethereum. This essential guide shows you how to develop the skills necessary to be an innovator in this growing and exciting new industry.

This essential guide shows you how to develop the skills necessary to be an innovator in this growing and exciting new industry.

Run an Ethereum client, create and transmit basic transactions, and program smart contracts

Learn the essentials of public key cryptography, hashes, and digital signatures

Understand how "wallets" hold digital keys that control funds and smart contracts

Interact with Ethereum clients programmatically using JavaScript libraries and Remote Procedure Call interfaces

Learn security best practices, design patterns, and anti-patterns with real-world examples

Create tokens that represent assets, shares, votes, or access control rights

Build decentralized applications using multiple peer-to-peer (P2P) components

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Apr 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781662186578

Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and highly sought-after expert in Bitcoin and open blockchain technologies. He is known for making complex subjects easy to understand and highlight both the positive and negative impacts these technologies can have on our global societies. As an educator, his mission is to educate as many people as possible, in as many places as possible, in as many languages as possible, about the historical, technological, and socio-economic impacts of Bitcoin and open blockchain technologies. Andreas has served as a teaching fellow for the free Introduction to Digital Currencies course offered to the public at the University of Nicosia. Along with co-authoring the course curriculum, Andreas has also written two best-selling technical books for programmers, Mastering Bitcoin, and Mastering Ethereum. He has published The Internet of Money series of books, which focus on the social, political, and economic importance and implications of these technologies. In addition to these books, he has authored hundreds of syndicated articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers; and is a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide. His live talks are always unique, unscripted, and combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdotes, and historical precedent. Andreas has been interviewed by ABC, BBC, Bloomberg, CBS, CNBC, CNN, NBC, and Financial Times for his industry expertise. He has been a repeat guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and London Real. He has been featured in numerous documentary films, and is a permanent host on the Speaking of Bitcoin podcast with more than 400 episodes recorded to date. He also released his own podcast called Unscrypted which was taken from his most popular talks. He has appeared as an expert witness in legal cases and regulatory hearings around the world, including the Australian Senate Banking Committee and the Canadian Senate Commerce, Banking and Finance Committee. Currently, Andreas is working on his sixth book and third technical work, Mastering the Lightning Network.

Reviews for Mastering Ethereum

[Sthitadhi Mutsuddy · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Worst possible audiobook implementation of a great book, the reader has no clue about anything spoken, with mispronunciations and what not and more than half the book is not even covered with awful inconsistencies all around, just read the book on your own.