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Blockchain for Enterprise

By : Narayan Prusty
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Blockchain for Enterprise

By: Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

The increasing growth in blockchain use is enormous, and it is changing the way business is done. Many leading organizations are already exploring the potential of blockchain. With this book, you will learn to build end-to-end enterprise-level decentralized applications and scale them across your organization to meet your company's needs. This book will help you understand what DApps are and how the blockchain ecosystem works, via real-world examples. This extensive end-to-end book covers every blockchain aspect for business and for developers. You will master process flows and incorporate them into your own enterprise. You will learn how to use J.P. Morgan’s Quorum to build blockchain-based applications. You will also learn how to write applications that can help communicate enterprise blockchain solutions. You will learn how to write smart contracts that run without censorship and third-party interference. Once you've grasped what a blockchain is and have learned about Quorum, you will jump into building real-world practical blockchain applications for sectors such as payment and money transfer, healthcare, cloud computing, supply chain management, and much more.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Globally-available variables


There are special variables and functions that always exist globally. We will discuss them in upcoming sections.

Block and transaction properties

The block and transaction properties are as follows:

  • block.blockhash(uint blockNumber) returns (bytes32): The hash of the given block only works for the 256 most recent blocks.
  • block.coinbase (address): The current block's miner's address.
  • block.difficulty (uint): The current block's difficulty.
  • block.gaslimit (uint): The current block's gas limit. It defines the maximum amount of gas that all transactions in the whole block combined are allowed to consume. Its purpose is to keep the block-propagation and processing time low, thereby allowing a sufficiently decentralized network. Miners have the right to set the gas limit for the current block to be within ~0.0975% (1/1,024) of the gas limit of the last block, so the resulting gas limit should be the median of the miners' preferences.
  • block.number (uint): The current block...