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Blockchain involves no intermediaries. The value is between the sender and the receiver. In this chapter, readers will be exposed to the various facets of the blockchain and consensus mechanisms. Further, a specific discussion in the emergent segment of blockchain applications is also covered.
Unless you know the code, it has no meaning the future.
—John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
We all force our true selves into little hashes and show them like passwords. A smile is a hashing function, and a word, and a cry. The cry is not the grief, the word is not the meaning, and smile is not the joy: we cannot run the hash in reverse, we cannot get from the sign to the absolute truth. Maybe the smile is false. Maybe the grief is a lie.
—Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant
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Upadhyay, N. (2019). Rule of Code. In: UnBlock the Blockchain. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0177-7_2
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