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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)

Building a business network

Hyperledger Fabric has a built-in docker image to run peer nodes, and in order to set up a supply chain network we would typically use Docker Composer to launch various Fabric component containers. Before we run the Fabric network, we need to design the food supply chain network topology properly. In the chain, we have six types of entity: the raw food producer, a manufacturing processor, wholesalers, logistics operators, retailers, and consumers. For demonstration purposes we will define three different organizations to contain these entities, a single orderer, and a channel in our business network. The entities will interact with the blockchain application by invoking Chaincode in the Fabric network, updating the ledger world state, and writing transaction logs.

In this design, the organisation ORG1 hosts two peer nodes (peer0.org1.fsc.com and peer1...