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Advanced Blockchain Development

By : Imran Bashir, Narayan Prusty
Book Image

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

Mist


Mist is a client for Ethereum, Whisper, and Swarm. It lets us send transactions, send Whisper messages, inspect blockchains, and so on.

The relation between Mist and geth is similar to the relation between Ethereum Wallet and geth.

The most popular feature of Mist is that it comes with a browser. Currently, the frontend JavaScript running in the browser can access the web3 APIs of the geth node using the web3.js library (a library that provides Ethereum console's JavaScript APIs for other applications to communicate with geth).

The basic idea of Mist is to build the third generation web (Web 3.0), which would wipe out the need to have servers by using Ethereum, Whisper, and Swarm as replacements for centralized servers.

Here is an image, showing what Mist looks like: