[Link] IBM developerWorks - BlockChaim Essentials Course

Blockchain is an emerging technology that can radically improve banking, supply chain, and other transaction networks and can create new opportunities for innovation. Businesses contain many examples of networks of individuals and organizations that collaborate to create value and wealth.

These networks work together in markets that exchange assets in the form of goods and services between the participants.

Blockchain technology provides the basis for a dynamic shared ledger that can be applied to save time when recording transactions between parties, remove costs associated with intermediaries, and reduce risks of fraud and tampering.

The video lectures and lab in this course help you learn about blockchain for business and explore key use cases that demonstrate how the technology adds value.
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Study Blockchain - Books to read

Blockchain, Bitcoins and cryptocurrency are changing the world of finance, and are already touted as disruptive. Not just finance, but other industries are also exploring the potential for utilizing, what is claimed to be, amongst the most secure trading and transactional means, especially in the world of money.

However, Bitcoins - and blockchain - aren't necessarily limited to financial domain.

To learn more about this, find useful books at studyblockchain.org from Amit Bharadwaj, founder at Amaze Mining and Research Limited.