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Mastering Blockchain - Fourth Edition

By : Imran Bashir
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Book Image

Mastering Blockchain - Fourth Edition

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By: Imran Bashir

Overview of this book

Blockchain is the backbone of cryptocurrencies, it has had a massive impact in many sectors, including finance, supply chains, healthcare, government, and media. It’s also being used for cutting edge technologies such as AI and IoT. This new edition is thoroughly revised to offer a practical approach to using Ethereum, Hyperledger, Fabric, and Corda with step-by-step tutorials and real-world use-cases to help you understand everything you need to know about blockchain development and implementation. With new chapters on Decentralized Finance and solving privacy, identity, and security issues, as well as bonus online content exploring alternative blockchains, this is an unmissable read for everyone who wants to gain a deep understanding of blockchain. The book doesn’t shy away from advanced topics and practical expertise, such as decentralized application (DApp) development using smart contracts and oracles, and emerging trends in the blockchain space. Throughout the book, you’ll explore blockchain solutions beyond cryptocurrencies, such as the IoT with blockchain, enterprise blockchains, and tokenization, and gain insight into the future scope of this fascinating and disruptive technology. By the end of this blockchain book, you will have gained a thorough comprehension of the various facets of blockchain and understand the potential of this technology in diverse real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Index

Exploring Web3 with Geth

To expose the required APIs via geth, the following command can be used:

$ geth --datadir ~/etherprivate --networkid 786 --http --http.api "web3,net,eth,debug" --http.port 8001 --http.corsdomain http://localhost:7777

The -–http flag in the preceding command allows the web3, eth, net, and debug methods. There are other APIs such as personal, miner, and admin that can be exposed by adding their names to this list.

Web3 is a powerful API and can be explored by attaching a geth instance. Later in this section, you will be introduced to the concepts and techniques of making use of Web3 via JavaScript/HTML frontends.

Note that I have used Geth version v1.10.14-stable and all commands work correctly for this version and may not work with previous versions. Try to use latest version of geth when running examples in this chapter, or at least v1.10.14-stable.

The geth instance can be attached using the following command:

$ geth attach ~/etherprivate...