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Published inAug 2018
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Brenn Hill
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Brenn Hill is a senior software engineer who has worked with such clients as NASCAR, PGA Tour, Time Warner Cable, and many others. He has experience leading international teams on cannot fail engineering projects. He strives to work with business to ensure that tech projects achieve good ROI and solve key business problems. He has a master's degree in Information Science from UNC-CH and currently travels the world as a digital nomad.
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Samanyu Chopra
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Samanyu Chopra

Samanyu Chopra is a developer, entrepreneur, and Blockchain supporter with wide experience of conceptualizing, developing, and producing computer and mobile software's. He has been programming since the age of 11. He is proficient in programming languages such as JavaScript, Scala, C#, C++, Swift, and so on. He has a wide range of experience in developing for computers and mobiles. He has been a supporter of Bitcoin and blockchain since its early days and has been part of wide-ranging decentralized projects since a long time. You can write a tweet to him at @samdonly1.
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Paul Valencourt is CFO of BlockSimple Solutions. He currently helps people launch STOs and invest in cryptocurrency mining.
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Backups

In most blockchains, each computer acting as a full participant in the network holds a complete copy of all transactions that have ever happened since the launch of the network. This means that even under catastrophic duress, as long as a fraction of the network computers remains functional, a complete backup will exist.

In PoS chains, there tends to be far fewer full participants so the number of backups and distribution is far less. So far, this reduced level of redundancy has not been an issue.

Consistency

As discussed in prior chapters, hashing and the Merkle root of all transactions and behaviors on the blockchain allow for an easy calculation of consistency. If consistency is broken on a blockchain, it will be...

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Published in: Aug 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788995788

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Brenn Hill

Brenn Hill is a senior software engineer who has worked with such clients as NASCAR, PGA Tour, Time Warner Cable, and many others. He has experience leading international teams on cannot fail engineering projects. He strives to work with business to ensure that tech projects achieve good ROI and solve key business problems. He has a master's degree in Information Science from UNC-CH and currently travels the world as a digital nomad.
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Samanyu Chopra

Samanyu Chopra is a developer, entrepreneur, and Blockchain supporter with wide experience of conceptualizing, developing, and producing computer and mobile software's. He has been programming since the age of 11. He is proficient in programming languages such as JavaScript, Scala, C#, C++, Swift, and so on. He has a wide range of experience in developing for computers and mobiles. He has been a supporter of Bitcoin and blockchain since its early days and has been part of wide-ranging decentralized projects since a long time. You can write a tweet to him at @samdonly1.
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Paul Valencourt

Paul Valencourt is CFO of BlockSimple Solutions. He currently helps people launch STOs and invest in cryptocurrency mining.
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