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Blockchain Quick Reference

By : Mariko Amekodommo, Brenn Hill, Samanyu Chopra, Paul Valencourt
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Blockchain Quick Reference

By: Mariko Amekodommo, Brenn Hill, Samanyu Chopra, Paul Valencourt

Overview of this book

Blockchain Quick Reference takes you through the electrifying world of blockchain technology and is designed for those who want to polish their existing knowledge regarding the various pillars of the blockchain ecosystem. This book is your go-to guide, teaching you how to apply principles and ideas for making your life and business better. You will cover the architecture, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), tokens, smart contracts, and terminologies of the blockchain technology, before studying how they work. All you need is a curious mind to get started with blockchain technology. Once you have grasped the basics, you will explore components of Ethereum, such as ether tokens, transactions, and smart contracts, in order to build simple Dapps. You will then move on to learning why Solidity is used specifically for Ethereum-based projects, followed by exploring different types of blockchain with easy-to-follow examples. All this will help you tackle challenges and problems. By the end of this book, you will not only have solved current and future problems relating to blockchain technology but will also be able to build efficient decentralized applications.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Stellar

The Stellar network is for the exchange of any currency, including custom tokens. Stellar has a consensus system that is more commonly known as the Stellar consensus protocol (SCP), which is based on the Federated Byzantine Agreement (FBA). SCP is different from PoW and PoS with its prime focus to offer lower latency for faster transactions.

It has four main properties:

  • Decentralized property: It allows participation by anyone without any central party
  • Low latency: It addresses the much-desired requirement of fast transaction processing
  • Flexible trust: It allows users to choose which parties they trust for a specific purpose
  • Asymptotic security: It makes use of digital signatures and hash functions for providing the required level of security on the network

The Stellar network maintains a distributed ledger that saves every transaction and is replicated on each Stellar...