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Mastering Blockchain

You're reading from   Mastering Blockchain Distributed ledger technology, decentralization, and smart contracts explained

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839044
Length 656 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Imran Bashir Imran Bashir
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Preface 1. Blockchain 101 FREE CHAPTER 2. Decentralization 3. Symmetric Cryptography 4. Public Key Cryptography 5. Introducing Bitcoin 6. Bitcoin Network and Payments 7. Bitcoin Clients and APIs 8. Alternative Coins 9. Smart Contracts 10. Ethereum 101 11. Further Ethereum 12. Ethereum Development Environment 13. Development Tools and Frameworks 14. Introducing Web3 15. Hyperledger 16. Alternative Blockchains 17. Blockchain – Outside of Currencies 18. Scalability and Other Challenges 19. Current Landscape and What's Next 20. Another Book You May Enjoy

The Ethereum network

The Ethereum network is a peer-to-peer network where nodes participate in order to maintain the blockchain and contribute to the consensus mechanism. Networks can be divided into three types, based on requirements and usage. These types are described in the following subsections.

Mainnet

Mainnet is the current live network of Ethereum. The current version of mainnet is Byzantium (Metropolis) and its chain ID is 1. Chain ID is used to identify the network. A block explorer which shows detailed information about blocks and other relevant metrics is available at https://etherscan.io. This can be used to explore the Ethereum blockchain.

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