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Beginning Ethereum Smart Contracts Programming: With Examples in Python, Solidity, and JavaScript
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Beginning Ethereum Smart Contracts Programming: With Examples in Python, Solidity, and JavaScript

by Wei-Meng Lee
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
377 pages
7h 17m
English
Apress
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W.-M. LeeBeginning Ethereum Smart Contracts Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9271-6_3

3. Implementing Your Own Blockchain Using Python

Wei-Meng Lee1  
(1)
Ang Mo Kio, Singapore
 

In the previous chapter, you learned about the basics of blockchain, the motivations behind blockchains, how transactions are added to blocks, and how blocks are added to the previous blocks to form a chain of blocks called a blockchain. A good way to understand all these concepts is to build one yourself. Implementing your own blockchain offers you a more detailed look at how concepts like transactions, mining, and consensus work.

Obviously, implementing a full blockchain ...

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