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Mastering Blockchain - Fourth Edition

By : Imran Bashir
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Book Image

Mastering Blockchain - Fourth Edition

5 (3)
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

Experimenting further with bitcoin-cli

As we've seen so far, bitcoin-cli is a powerful and feature-rich command-line interface available with the Bitcoin Core client and can be used to perform various functions using the RPC interface provided by the Bitcoin Core client.

We will now see how to send Bitcoin to an address using the command line. For this, we will use the Bitcoin command-line interface on the Bitcoin regtest:

  1. Generate a new address using the following command:
$ bitcoin-cli -regtest getnewaddress
2NC31WFFRwRkwd3S4TpyjN5GGDY7E63GSVd
  1. Send 20 BTC to the newly generated address:
$ bitcoin-cli -regtest sendtoaddress \ 2NC31WFFRwRkwd3S4TpyjN5GGDY7E63GSVd 20.00
  1. The output of this command will show the transaction ID, which is:
a83ff460a32f29387d531f19e7092a5dcf6ce52d20931227447c0b9b7a5f2980
  1. We can now generate a few more blocks to get some confirmation for this:
$ bitcoin-cli -regtest generatetoaddress 7 $(bitcoin-cli -regtest getnewaddress)
  1. We can also query...