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Mastering Blockchain
Distributed ledgers, decentralization and smart contracts
explained
Imran Bashir
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Mastering Blockchain
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Credits
Author
Imran Bashir
Reviewer
Daniel Kraft
Commissioning Editor
Veena Pagare
Acquisition Editor
Ajith Menon
Content Development Editors
Sumeet Sawant
Amrita Noronha
Technical Editor
Nilesh Sawakhande
Production Coordinator
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Proofreader
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Indexer
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Graphics
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About the Author
Imran Bashir
has a M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of
London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture,
infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of
Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) and
British Computer Society
(BCS). Imran
has sixteen years of experience in the public and financial sectors. He worked on large scale
IT projects for public sector before moving to financial services industry. Since then he has
worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe’s financial
capital, London. He is currently working for an investment bank in London as Vice
President in the technology department.
I would like to thank the talented team at Packt including Ajith Menon, Nilesh Sawakhande, Sumeet
Sawant, and Tushar Gupta, who provided prompt guidance and very valuable feedback throughout
this project. I am also extremely thankful to the reviewer, Daniel Kraft, who provided constructive
and very useful feedback that helped tremendously to improve the material in this book.
I thank my wife and children for putting up with my all-night and weekend-long writing sessions.
Finally, I would like to thank my parents, whose blessings on me have made everything possible for
me.
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