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Building Blockchain Projects

By : Narayan Prusty
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Building Blockchain Projects

By: Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

Blockchain is a decentralized ledger that maintains a continuously growing list of data records that are secured from tampering and revision. Every user is allowed to connect to the network, send new transactions to it, verify transactions, and create new blocks, making it permission-less. This book will teach you what blockchain is, how it maintains data integrity, and how to create real-world blockchain projects using Ethereum. With interesting real-world projects, you will learn how to write smart contracts which run exactly as programmed without any chance of fraud, censorship, or third-party interference, and build end-to-e applications for blockchain. You will learn about concepts such as cryptography in cryptocurrencies, ether security, mining, smart contracts, solidity, and more. You will also learn about web sockets, various API services for Ethereum, and much more. The blockchain is the main technical innovation of bitcoin, where it serves as the public ledger for bitcoin transactions.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 2. Understanding How Ethereum Works

In the previous chapter, we saw what DApps are. We also saw an overview of some of the popular DApps. One of them was Ethereum. At present, Ethereum is the most popular DApp after bitcoin. In this chapter, we will learn in depth about how Ethereum works and what we can develop using Ethereum. We will also see the important Ethereum clients and node implementations.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Ethereum user accounts
  • What are smart contracts and how do they work?
  • Ethereum virtual machine
  • How does mining work in the proof-of-work consensus protocol?
  • Learning how to use the geth command
  • Setting up the Ethereum Wallet and Mist
  • Overview of Whisper and Swarm
  • The future of Ethereum