260  Index

Delegated PoS (dPoS) 11, 50

DEX 15, 18

difficulty in establishing a consortium

137

difficulty to establish a blockchain

eco-system 137

digital assets 15, 17, 39–40, 50, 53, 61,

84, 88, 154–155, 158, 161,

198, 224

Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) 12, 13

distributed ledger 1, 45, 52, 59–60, 65,

93–94, 119, 121–122, 130,

148, 153

divisibility 3

DLT 1, 4, 45, 52–53, 65–66, 122,

148, 153

Economist 41, 45, 98

EHR 75, 77

energy 10–11, 13, 56, 61, 80–81, 87,

174, 177, 178, 183

EOS 13, 50, 55, 104, 111

Ether 5, 24, 27, 34, 48, 51, 109, 244

Ethereum 2.0 11, 48, 57

fake platform 115

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) 141

free courses 119–122, 124

FTX 102

genomic data 78–79

GovTech 61, 81, 87

hash 7–8, 105

hashing 4, 8

healthcare 61, 75–79, 81, 87, 134,

140, 170

Holding User’s Private Keys 115

hybrid blockchain 8, 68, 86, 88, 95,

137, 158–159

Hyperledger 11, 13, 48–49, 51, 56, 58,

59–60, 67–69, 72, 77–78,

124, 170

ICO 7, 46, 51, 54–55, 58, 97, 105,

109–115, 131, 244

Ignatova, Ruja 101

immutability 1–3, 15, 22, 116, 243

immutable 1–2, 8, 15, 22, 39, 52–53,

65, 80, 83, 92, 130, 153–155,

156, 157, 159, 244

important business services (IBS)

140–141

intellectual property concerns 137,

139, 151

internet of things (IoT) 55, 75,

110, 116

interoperability 15, 49, 89, 138,

139, 148, 151, 170–173,

202–203, 236

IOSpeed Limited 17

lack of governance 138, 139, 149, 151

lending platforms 16

limited supply 3, 114

list of blockchain sandboxes 197

Massive Premine 114

media and entertainment 94–95

Metamask 17, 23–28, 31

miners 3, 4, 5, 10–11, 48, 99, 105, 130

mining 3, 11, 68, 99, 105, 114,

130, 177

Mt Gox 103, 107–108

Nakamoto, Satoshi 2, 55, 63, 97

OneCoin 101

paid courses 117, 119–124

performance issues 137, 139, 148, 151

permissioned blockchains 8, 13

PEST 173–174

Porter, Michael 71, 164, 168, 169, 217, 218

cost leadership strategy 166

Five forces strategy model 168

Generic strategy 165

value chain model 71

practical byzantine fault tolerance

(PBFT) 11

predictive markets 16

private blockchain 8, 13, 65, 91, 92,

124, 158–159

processors 3

programmability 15

Proof of Authority (PoA) 11, 13, 154

Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET). 11, 13

Proof of History (PoH) 12, 13

Proof of Reputation (PoR) 12, 13

Proof of Stake (PoS) 11, 13, 57, 154

Proof of Work (PoW) 10, 13, 154

Prudential Regulatory Authority

(PRA) 141