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Advanced Blockchain Development

By : Imran Bashir, Narayan Prusty
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Advanced Blockchain Development

By: Imran Bashir, Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

Blockchain technology is a distributed ledger with applications in industries such as finance, government, and media. This Learning Path is your guide to building blockchain networks using Ethereum, JavaScript, and Solidity. You will get started by understanding the technical foundations of blockchain technology, including distributed systems, cryptography and how this digital ledger keeps data secure. Further into the chapters, you’ll gain insights into developing applications using Ethereum and Hyperledger. As you build on your knowledge of Ether security, mining, smart contracts, and Solidity, you’ll learn how to create robust and secure applications that run exactly as programmed without being affected by fraud, censorship, or third-party interference. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll explore how blockchain solutions can be implemented in applications such as IoT apps, in addition to its use in currencies. This Learning Path also highlights how you can increase blockchain scalability, and discusses the future scope of this fascinating and powerful technology. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be equipped with the skills you need to tackle pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle and confidently design and deploy decentralized applications.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
15
Blockchain - Outside of Currencies
16
Scalability and Other Challenges
Index

Geth


Geth (or called as go-ethereum) is an implementation of Ethereum, Whisper, and Swarm nodes. Geth can be used to be part of all of these or only selected ones. The reason for combining them is to make them look like a single DApp and also so that via one node, a client can access all three DApps.

Geth is a CLI application. It's written in the go programming language. It's available for all the major operating systems. The current version of geth doesn't yet support Swarm and supports whisper a some of the features of Whisper. At the time of writing this book, the latest version of geth was 1.3.5.

Installing geth

Geth is available for OS X, Linux, and Windows. It supports two types of installation: binary and scripted installation. At the time of writing this book, the latest stable version of geth is 1.4.13. Let's see how to install it in various operating systems using the binary installation method. Scripted installation is used when you have to modify something in the geth source code...