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Published inNov 2018
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Eric Traub
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Eric Traub currently works as a software engineer in New York City. He has extensive experience working as a teacher and instructing people in a variety of different subjects. He changed his career from teaching to software engineering because of the excitement it brings to him and the passion that he has for it. He is now lucky enough to have the opportunity to combine both of these passions - software engineering and teaching!
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Refactoring the createNewTransaction method and the /transaction endpoint

In this section, let's refactor the createNewTransaction method by splitting it into two separate parts. One part will simply create a new transaction and then return that transaction, and the other part will push the new transaction into the pendingTransactions array. We'll do the latter part by creating a separate method for it. We also create a new transaction endpoint called /transaction/broadcast. This endpoint will allow us to broadcast transactions throughout the entire blockchain network, so that every node has the same data and so that the entire network is synchronized.

Modifications to the createNewTransaction method

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Eric Traub currently works as a software engineer in New York City. He has extensive experience working as a teacher and instructing people in a variety of different subjects. He changed his career from teaching to software engineering because of the excitement it brings to him and the passion that he has for it. He is now lucky enough to have the opportunity to combine both of these passions - software engineering and teaching!
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