Joseph J. Bambara - Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Developing Business, Law, and Technology Solutions

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I would like to dedicate this book to my family (Roseanne, Vanessa, and Michael) and friends (especially Hillary Brower and Rolando Marino) and to the hope that we in America can properly educate our young and lead the world in technology, innovation, and freedom.
Joseph J. Bambara

I would like to dedicate this book to my children, Sophia and Terence. My hope is that you will always do what you love, and therefore love what you do.
Paul R. Allen

Joseph J. Bambara, CIPP/US, is an attorney/technologist. As an attorney with a private practice, he has counseled affiliate marketing, media, and technology firms in software and data licensing agreements, intellectual property, privacy, data security, and cybersecurity as well as analyzing the legal implications of new technologies like blockchain and smart contracts. As technologist/founder of UCNY, Inc., his experience includes 30 years of implementing computing and communications architecture for Wall Street, media and law enforcement including mobile, enterprise, database, cybersecurity, and most recently IoT and blockchain. He has taught courses in computing at CCNY School of Engineering in New York. He is the author of more than 10 internationally published books on software development covering Java, SQL, and related technologies for McGraw-Hill. As lecturer and co-chairman of the New York County Lawyers Association Law and Technology Group, he presents frequently on law and technology. He has a juris doctorate in law and a masters degree in computer science.

Paul R. Allen is a director and product owner at Enterprise Engineering, Inc. Paul has been advising on, architecting, and developing applications systems for over 25 years. During this time, he has performed many strategic assessments of IT organizations, infrastructures, software development processes, and application architectures and helped companies and teams evaluate alternative technologies and products. He has developed systems for the financial, brokerage, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing industries, specializing in web-based, object-oriented technology and is now doing the same in the exciting world of blockchain, IoT, and smart contracts. He has taught numerous courses in computing at Columbia University in New York. He has authored more than a dozen books, including OCM Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect Exam Guide (Oracle Press, 2014), Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Study Guide (McGraw-Hill, 2007), J2EE Unleashed (SAMS, 2001), SQL Server Developers Guide (IDG, 2000), Informix: Universal Data Option (McGraw-Hill, 1998), and PowerBuilder: A Guide to Developing Client/Server Applications (McGraw-Hill, 1995). Paul has also given presentations on computing topics in cities around the globe, including London, Paris, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Vienna, Berlin, New York, Washington, D.C., Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm.

Kedar Iyer is a software engineer who has worked with satellite systems, autonomous robotics, and blockchain technologies. He was the co-founder of LetsChai, an India-based dating site. His most recent focus has been on blockchain technologies. He is the creator of PeerBet, a peer-to-peer sports betting platform on the Ethereum blockchain. He has a degree in mechanical engineering from UCLA and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Solomon Lederer, PhD, is a founder of blockmatics.tech, a blockchain training and consulting firm, and the founder of Coinspace, a blockchain-focused co-working space. He is also partner and head of technology at Iterative Instinct, a private investment fund focused on crypto-assets. He has a doctorate in distributed and ad hoc sensor networks, where he developed novel ways for networks to self-organize. Before blockchain, he worked as a software engineer in the defense and finance industries. He has been working with/teaching blockchain technology and Ethereum since 2014.