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Grokking Ethereum

In this chapter, we will try to understand Ethereum. We will study what decentralization means and whether Ethereum is truly decentralized. We will also cover its core technological stack and get familiar with various jargon such as mist, Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), swarm, whisper, ether, and gas. We will briefly discuss solidity and the notion of a Turing complete language. We'll then revisit forking, mining, and block architecture from the perspective of Ethereum. We'll end this chapter by getting an understanding of Ethereum wallets and client interfaces, which will serve as a firm base for smart contract development.

After studying this chapter, you will be able to:

Understand the concept of Ethereum
Appreciate the notion of decentralization
Be familiar with Ethereum related jargon
Know about solidity and Turing complete languages
Comprehend...

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Understand the Ethereum Ecosystem and its differences from its rich cousin Bitcoin

Explore the Solidity programming language and smart contract optimizations

Get a developer’s perspective of Blockchain-as-a-technology with exposure to common challenges faced while building decentralized applications

Description

Ethereum is a public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract functionality. This book is your one-stop guide to blockchain and Ethereum smart contract development. We start by introducing you to the basics of blockchain. You'll learn about hash functions, Merkle trees, forking, mining, and much more. Then you'll learn about Ethereum and smart contracts, and we'll cover Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) in detail. Next, you'll get acquainted with DApps and DAOs and see how they work. We'll also delve into the mechanisms of advanced smart contracts, taking a practical approach. You'll also learn how to develop your own cryptocurrency from scratch in order to understand the business behind ICO. Further on, you'll get to know the key concepts of the Solidity programming language, enabling you to build decentralized blockchain-based applications. We'll also look at enterprise use cases, where you'll build a decentralized microblogging site. At the end of this book, we discuss blockchain-as-a-service, the dark web marketplace, and various advanced topics so you can get well versed with the blockchain principles and ecosystem.

Who is this book for?

If you want to know the ins and outs of the Ethereum network and build your own decentralized applications, then this book is what you need! This book is for anyone who is interested in blockchain and wants to become an Ethereum developer. It’s ideal for existing Ethereum developers who want to develop Ethereum using smart contracts. Basic knowledge of cryptography is expected but is not mandatory.

What you will learn

Know how to build your own smart contracts and cryptocurrencies

Understand the Solidity language

Find out about data types, control structure, functions, inheritance, mathematical operations, and much more

See the various types of forks and discover how they are related to Ethereum

Get to know the various concepts of web3.js and its APIs so you can build client-side apps

Build a DAO from scratch and acquire basic knowledge of DApps on Ethercast

Be guided through the project so you can optimize EVM for smart contracts

Build your own decentralized applications (DApps) by taking a practical approach

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Tim S. May 28, 2018

Ethereum Smart Contract Development: Build blockchain-based decentralized applications using solidity This book was pretty good, it covered material on the web3 api (there are a-lot of functions), it covered may other areas and had snippets of code. What I like most about this was the use of the remix editor in detail, that was nice.However it did not cover some of the development tools that much that I could see e.g. truffle, solc (solidity compiler), parity etc.Could be worse, or better but should be enough to get you started :D

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Pei Deng Mar 20, 2018

I've reached 75% of the book, and I'm pretty disappointed about the book - even to the extent that I want my money back.1 star for the content. The author might be a good developer but not a qualified teacher at all.- "The code works on my machine": When showing how to deploy a private blockchain on a local machine, there is no in-depth illustration about how Mist & Geth commands work (like which file is the socket that Mist will read from to view the private blockchain), I'm a developer myself and live in command lines every day. In the end, I need to figure out how to fix the issue myself because of the different configuration file locations.- "We will talk about it later in-depth": Fine. But even in the later parts, there is no in-depth discussion. The book asked you to copy & paste some code blocks, but never show you why. For example, `function MyFunc() public constant return unit`, as a developer (again!) I wonder what `constant` means here. But after searching in the whole Kindle book, I don't see any illustration regarding the `constant` modifier.1 star for novelty, blockchain development is still a pretty new topic, it's great that the author has the motivation in sharing the knowledge.In short, the book is more like an introduction to Ethereum development, not an in-depth discussion at all. I would say this is an OK starting point but it's just OK. "Your one-stop guide to learning about Blockchain and Ethereum Smart Contract development"? NO WAY!

JH Oct 30, 2018

This is typical of some of the newer Packt releases where they just cram some content together just to publish *something* on a given topic. I have found a few other ML related books to be similar in content -- just really low quality, hard to follow and seemingly not even proof read at all.

Ethereum Smart Contract Development: Build blockchain-based decentralized applications using solidity

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Ethereum Smart Contract Development

Grokking Ethereum

Understanding Ethereum

The notion of decentralization

The Ethereum ecosystem

Mist

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Turing completeness and the magic sauce

Ethereum block, mining, and forking

The Ethereum wallet and client interface

Understanding Ethereum

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