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Published inApr 2017
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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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Introduction to parity


Parity is an Ethereum node written from the ground up for correctness/verifiability, modularization, low footprint, and high performance. It is written in Rust programming language, a hybrid imperative/OO/functional language with an emphasis on efficiency. It is professionally developed by Parity Technologies. At the time of writing this book, the latest version of parity is 1.7.0, and we will be using this version. We will learn as much as is required to build a consortium blockchain. To learn parity in depth, you can refer to the official documentation.

It has a lot more features than go-ethereum, such as web3 dapp browser, much more advanced account management, and so on. But what makes it special is that it supports Proof-of-Authority (PoA) along with PoW. Parity currently su+-pports Aura and Tendermint PoA protocols. In future, it may support some more PoA protocols. Currently, parity recommends the use of Aura instead of Tendermint as Tendermint is still under...

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Narayan Prusty

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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