Summary

This chapter has introduced us to everything we need to fuel the study of blockchain in the coming chapters. Having got to know the background of blockchain technology, including its purposes and how it works, we should now fully understand the potential of this technology and how it can solve problems in some of our current systems.

Now that we have a fair understanding of the technology, in the next chapter, Chapter 2, A Bit of Cryptography, we will walk through the concepts surrounding the backbone of blockchain technology. In that chapter, we'll be exploring the building blocks for an understanding of blockchain.