Stage 1: Terminology and Technical Foundations.-

Step 1: Thinking in Layers and Aspects.-

Step 2: Seeing the Big Picture.-

Step 3: Recognizing the Potential.-

Stage 2: Why the Blockchain Is Needed.-

Step 4: Discovering the Core Problem.-

Step 5: Disambiguating the Term.-

Step 6: Understanding the Nature of Ownership.-

Step 7: Spending Money Twice.-

Stage 3: How the Blockchain Works.-

Step 8: Planning the Blockchain.-

Step 9: Documenting Ownership.-

Step 10: Hashing Data.-

Step 11: Hashing in the Real World.-

Step 12: Identifying and Protecting User Accounts.-

Step 13: Authorizing Transactions.-

Step 14: Storing Transaction Data.-

Step 15: Using the Data Store.-

Step 16: Protecting the Data Store.-

Step 17: Distributing the Data Store Among Peers.-

Step 18: Verifying and Adding Transactions.-

Step 19: Choosing a Transaction History.-

Step 20: Paying for Integrity.-

Step 21: Bringing the Pieces Together.-

Stage 4: Limitations and Their Solutions.-

Step 22: Seeing the Limitations.-

Step 23: Reinventing the Blockchain.-

Stage 5: Using the Blockchain, Summary, and Outlook

Step 24: Using the Blockchain.-

Step 25: Summarizing and Going Further.-

Bibliography.-