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Blockchain By Example

You're reading from   Blockchain By Example A developer's guide to creating decentralized applications using Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hyperledger

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475686
Length 528 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Xun (Brian) Wu Xun (Brian) Wu
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Preface 1. Say Hello to Blockchain FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Bitcoin Payment System 3. Building Your Own Cryptocurrency 4. Peer-to-Peer Auctions in Ethereum 5. Tontine Game with Truffle and Drizzle 6. Blockchain-Based Futures System 7. Blockchains in Business 8. Creating an ICO 9. Distributed Storage IPFS and Swarm 10. Supply Chain on Hyperledger 11. Letter of Credit (LC) Hyperledger 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Privacy and anonymity in Ethereum

We have so far discussed the differences between public and private networks, where it is the network itself, and access to it, which is either public or private. We now turn our attention to the data—both transaction and contract data—inside a given network.
The Ethereum main network can be joined by anyone. Furthermore, all transaction and smart contract data is public, meaning all transactions between a to and from address can be seen by everybody using the network. There is no way to hide these transactions, or the addresses transacting, and as such, there's no way for a user on Ethereum to be truly anonymous. If a way were found to link an address with a real-world identity—either at the present time, or at a point in the future—then the identity of the transacting party would be known. This might seem obvious...

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