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Building Blockchain Projects

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Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787122147
Pages 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
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Narayan Prusty is a full-stack developer. He works as a consultant for various start-ups around the world. He has worked on various technologies and programming languages but is very passionate about JavaScript, WordPress, Ethereum, Solr, React, Cordova, MongoDB, and AWS. Apart from consulting for various start-ups, he also runs a blog titled QNimate and a video tutorial site titled QScutter, where he shares information about a lot of the technologies he works on.
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Understanding Decentralized Applications 2. Understanding How Ethereum Works 3. Writing Smart Contracts 4. Getting Started with web3.js 5. Building a Wallet Service 6. Building a Smart Contract Deployment Platform 7. Building a Betting App 8. Building Enterprise Level Smart Contracts 9. Building a Consortium Blockchain

Chapter 1. Understanding Decentralized Applications

Almost all of the Internet-based applications we have been using are centralized, that is, the servers of each application are owned by a particular company or person. Developers have been building centralized applications and users have been using them for a pretty long time. But there are a few concerns with centralized applications that make it next to impossible to build certain types of apps and every app ends up having some common issues. Some issues with centralized apps are that they are less transparent, they have a single point of failure, they fail to prevent net censorship, and so on. Due to these concerns, a new technology emerged for the building of Internet-based apps called decentralized applications (DApps). In this chapter, we will learn about decentralized apps.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • What are DApps?
  • What is the difference between decentralized, centralized, and distributed applications?
  • Advantages and disadvantages of centralized and decentralized applications.
  • An overview of the data structures, algorithms, and protocols used by some of the most popular DApps
  • Learning about some popular DApps that are built on top of other DApps.
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Narayan Prusty is a full-stack developer. He works as a consultant for various start-ups around the world. He has worked on various technologies and programming languages but is very passionate about JavaScript, WordPress, Ethereum, Solr, React, Cordova, MongoDB, and AWS. Apart from consulting for various start-ups, he also runs a blog titled QNimate and a video tutorial site titled QScutter, where he shares information about a lot of the technologies he works on.
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