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Blockchain: Executive Briefing

A short, pragmatic, business-focused introduction to blockchain.

Simon Allardice - Pluralsight course - Blockchain: Executive Briefing
Simon Allardice
What you'll learn

With a focus on real-world business applications over cryptocurrency, this course gets past the misconceptions and hype around blockchain, to uncover the most important ideas and terminology making sense of terms like distributed ledgers, smart contracts, cryptographic hashing, and consensus. Getting you ready to explore blockchain platforms and cover multiple scenarios to show where blockchain could be useful for your company or business.

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Simon Allardice - Pluralsight course - Blockchain: Executive Briefing
Simon Allardice

With over three decades of software development experience, Simon has programmed in every discipline: from finance to transportation, nuclear reactors to game development. His first video course released back in 2002: since then, his popular courses have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of developers. Simon obsesses on making complicated subjects accessible, memorable, and easier to learn.

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