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A Brief Introduction to Web3: Decentralized Web Fundamentals for App Development
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A Brief Introduction to Web3: Decentralized Web Fundamentals for App Development

by Shashank Mohan Jain
December 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
3h 5m
English
Apress
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© Shashank Mohan Jain 2023
S. M. JainA Brief Introduction to Web3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8975-4_2

2. Blockchain

Shashank Mohan Jain1  
(1)
Bangalore, India
 

Blockchain technology presents an innovative take on the traditional distributed database. The utilization of existing technology in unconventional settings is the source of the innovation. When we think of a traditional database like Postgres, there is a master node that accepts the write requests and is responsible for synchronizing the state changes to other Postgres nodes. In a decentralized setup like blockchain, there is no master node, but still it serves the same purpose of updating the ledger and making sure that other nodes in the network reflect the updated state correctly. ...

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