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Mastering Blockchain. - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839044
Pages 656 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Imran Bashir Imran Bashir
Profile icon Imran Bashir
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters close

Preface 1. Blockchain 101 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

Summary

This chapter started with the introduction of programming languages for programming smart contracts in Ethereum. After this, other concepts such as blocks, block structure, gas, and messages were also introduced and discussed in detail. The later sections of the chapter introduced the practical installation and management of Ethereum clients. Two most famous clients, Geth and Parity, were discussed.

Finally, supporting protocols and topics related to challenges faced by Ethereum were presented. Ethereum is under continuous development, and new improvements are being made by a dedicated community of developers regularly. Ethereum improvement proposals, available at https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs, are also an indication of the magnitude of research and keen interest by the community in this technology. Moreover, a recently launched initiative, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance...

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