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Ethereum Smart Contract Development

You're reading from   Ethereum Smart Contract Development Build blockchain-based decentralized applications using solidity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473040
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mayukh Mukhopadhyay Mayukh Mukhopadhyay
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Preface 1. Blockchain Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Grokking Ethereum 3. Hello World of Smart Contracts 4. A Noob's Guide to DApps and DAO 5. Deep-Diving into Smart Contracts 6. Solidity in Depth 7. Primer on Web3.js 8. Developing a Cryptocurrency from Scratch 9. Enterprise Use Cases 10. BaaS and the Dark Web Market 11. Advanced Topics and the Road Ahead 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the design of DAO

Is a DAO a smart contract? Is a DAO a DApp? Vitalik Buterin has described the decentralized autonomous organization as an entity that lives on the World Wide Web and has its own set of rules. DAO also heavily relies on hiring individuals to perform certain tasks that the automaton itself cannot do.

Grasping the concept of DAO can be bit tricky. From a software developer's perspective, a DAO is just a piece of code, specifically a complex smart contract, or an interacting module comprising many simple smart contracts, which are abstracted as an organization. From a trader's perspective, the closest analogy of DAO is a Limited Liability Company (LLC). Let's try to understand a bit about LLC. Suppose Susan has a great business idea and wants to open a start-up with her life-savings. Rather than going through the venture capitalist route...

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