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Blockchain By Example

By : Bellaj Badr, Richard Horrocks, Xun (Brian) Wu
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Blockchain By Example

By: Bellaj Badr, Richard Horrocks, Xun (Brian) Wu

Overview of this book

The Blockchain is a revolution promising a new world without middlemen. Technically, it is an immutable and tamper-proof distributed ledger of all transactions across a peer-to-peer network. With this book, you will get to grips with the blockchain ecosystem to build real-world projects. This book will walk you through the process of building multiple blockchain projects with different complexity levels and hurdles. Each project will teach you just enough about the field's leading technologies, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Quorum, and Hyperledger in order to be productive from the outset. As you make your way through the chapters, you will cover the major challenges that are associated with blockchain ecosystems such as scalability, integration, and distributed file management. In the concluding chapters, you’ll learn to build blockchain projects for business, run your ICO, and even create your own cryptocurrency. Blockchain by Example also covers a range of projects such as Bitcoin payment systems, supply chains on Hyperledger, and developing a Tontine Bank Every is using Ethereum. By the end of this book, you will not only be able to tackle common issues in the blockchain ecosystem, but also design and build reliable and scalable distributed systems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Verifying our contract code on Etherscan

Having deployed our contracts to Rinkeby, we can now start telling the public about our token sale and wait for the investment to roll in. However, any conscientious investor would likely question the transparency of our deployments how do they know our contracts can be trusted? As it stands, our contracts' bytecode can be viewed on EtherScan, but this isn't human-readable, and doesn't immediately help with convincing investors of our transparency.

One solution to this problem is to verify and publish our contract code on Etherscan, using the tool at https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/verifyContract. To do this, we require the following:

  • The contract addresses, which can be found in the output of the deployment stage.
  • The contract names, which we defined as PacktToken and PacktTokenSale.
  • The compiler version used by Truffle...