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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

Decentralized microblogging


In this section, we are going to explore the design of a basic Ethereum-based microblogging platform. Using these platforms, new users can register to get a personal microblogging account, which they can you to send anonymous tweets to a decentralized Ethereum-based private blockchain, with comments disabled by default.

But why do we need a decentralized blockchain for tweeting, and more importantly why are the users anonymous? To answer this question we need to understand the administrative and security constraints of a normal centralized microblogging platform, which we discuss in the next section.

Administrative and security constraints

Popular microblogging platforms such as Twitter, Tumblr, and Weibo (the Chinese variant of microblog, dominated by Sina and Tencent) are basically centralized social network services that are prone to problems.

The problems are mainly in two separate dimensions. One is technical, another one is social. In the technical dimension...

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