Learn how to use Solidity and the Ethereum project, which is second only to Bitcoin in market capitalization. Blockchain protocols are taking the world by storm, and the Ethereum project, with its Turing-complete scripting language Solidity, has rapidly become a front-runner. This book presents the blockchain phenomenon in context and situates Ethereum in a world pioneered by Bitcoin. See why professionals and non-professionals alike are honing their skills in smart contract patterns and distributed application development. You'll review the fundamentals of programming and networking, alongside an introduction to the new discipline of crypto-economics. You'll then deploy smart contracts of your own and learn how they can serve as a back-end for JavaScript and HTML applications on the web. Many Solidity tutorials available today have the same flaw: they are written for "advanced" JavaScript.