History of Bitcoin and Blockchain, Types of Blockchain, Distinction between databases and blockchain, Distributed ledger. Blockchain ecosystem - Consensus Algorithms & Types, Blockchain structure, Decentralization using Blockchain – Blockchain and Full Ecosystem, Decentralization – Platforms for Decentralization
Bitcoin – Digital Keys and Addresses – Transactions – Mining – Bitcoin Networks and Payments – Wallets – Alternative Coins – Theoretical Limitations – Bitcoin limitations – Name coin – Prime coin – Zcash – Smart Contracts – Ricardian Contracts.
The Ethereum ecosystem, DApps and DAOs - Ethereum working- Solidity- Contract classes, functions, and conditionals- Inheritance & abstract contracts- Libraries- Types & optimization of Ether- Global variables- Debugging- Future of Ethereum- Smart Contracts on Ethereum
Hyperledger Architecture- Consensus- Consensus & its interaction with architectural layers- Application programming interface- Application model -Hyperledger frameworks- Hyperledger Fabric -Various ways to create Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain network
Case studies –blockchain in healthcare, blockchain based voting system, Walmart blockchain, blockchain in banking , block chain in supply chain management.
Reference Book:
1.Efraim Turvan, J.Lee, David kug and chung, “Electronic commerce” Pearson Education Asia 2001. 2. Brenda Kienew ,E commerce Business Prentice Hall, 2001. 3.Kenneth C. Laudon, E-Commerce : Business, Technology, Society, 4th Edition, Pearson 4.S. J. Joseph, E-Commerce: an Indian perspective, PHI
Text Book:
1. Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies, by Andreas M Antonopoulos 2018 2.Imran Bashir, “Mastering Blockchain: Distributed Ledger Technology, Decentralization and Smart Contracts Explained”, Second Edition, Packt Publishing, 2018.
