Kapil Jain - BitCoin Blockchain: Protocol for Micropayments

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Kapil Jainis a technology professional working in the IT departments of large US and European organizations in the Banking and Financial industry. He has done his engineering degree from Sri GS institute of technology and sciences, Indore, and has played the role of programmer, business analyst, architect, project, and program manager over the 18 years of his experience in the industry.

He has a wealth of experience in Financial applications built on Mainframes and works to modernize those applications using Microsoft and Java based tech stacks, cloud infrastructure, including building serverless applications. He has also developed applications with Open source tech stack like MERN and experimented with AI/ML algorithms. He has been deeply involved in the Bitcoin protocol for the last 3 years and also has experimented with various other blockchains like Ethrereum along with EEA (Permissioned version of Ethereum), Hyperledger and Ripple.

He has also been a panel member at a couple of conferences organized by Alliance University on blockchain and AI. In his leisure time, he likes to attend workshops and conferences and likes to play chess.

Jason Fernandesis an entrepreneur, speaker and blockchain industry figure. Fernandes founded FinTech media outlet TokenJay.TV, internet portal ZeoCities.com and co-invented the worlds first Internet-based DVR, RecordTV. In 2019, Fernandes was conferred with the Karmaveer Chakra, a United Nations global civilian award for his work promoting financial inclusion through blockchain. Fernandes has featured in international outlets like the BBC, LA Times, Associated Press, MTV, ChannelNewsAsia, and national outlets like India Today, ZeeTV and the Times of India.

I have written this book in my journey to learn the bitcoin protocol. During this journey, I have read many books, blogs, and also sometimes code and training from various blockchain projects, which made me sure about what my views are about the bitcoin blockchain and its protocol.