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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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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

Tontine interfaces – Itontine

As per our design, now we will define an interface for our Tontine game.

Interfaces are universal concepts in programming languages used to represent collections of abstract methods. They are useful since they implement an agreed set of functions that enable interactions without forcing a contract relationship (they might be considered as a protocol).

Nevertheless, in Solidity, unlike abstract contracts, interfaces present the following limitations:

  • Cannot inherit other contracts or interfaces
  • Cannot implement their own functions
  • Cannot define a constructor
  • Cannot define variables
  • Cannot define structs
  • Cannot define enums

Here is the definition of our Itontine interface:

interface Itontine {
function join() external payable returns (bool);
function ping() external returns (bool);
function eliminate(address a) external returns (bool...
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