Search icon
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases!
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required
Arrow left icon
All Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Newsletters
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Building Blockchain Projects

You're reading from  Building Blockchain Projects

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787122147
Pages 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
Profile icon Narayan Prusty

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

Geth


Geth (or called as go-ethereum) is an implementation of Ethereum, Whisper, and Swarm nodes. Geth can be used to be part of all of these or only selected ones. The reason for combining them is to make them look like a single DApp and also so that via one node, a client can access all three DApps.

Geth is a CLI application. It's written in the go programming language. It's available for all the major operating systems. The current version of geth doesn't yet support Swarm and supports whisper a some of the features of Whisper. At the time of writing this book, the latest version of geth was 1.3.5.

Installing geth

Geth is available for OS X, Linux, and Windows. It supports two types of installation: binary and scripted installation. At the time of writing this book, the latest stable version of geth is 1.4.13. Let's see how to install it in various operating systems using the binary installation method. Scripted installation is used when you have to modify something in the geth source code...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $15.99/month. Cancel anytime}