October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
530 pages
14h 25m
English
One of the main mechanisms that make a blockchain secure is the consensus protocol. In Chapter 4, Blockchain 101 - Blocks, Chains, and Consensus, I explained the four commonly-used consensus protocols. The choice of protocol can determine whether it is best to use a public blockchain for your application. Public blockchains use protocols where all nodes participate in reaching consensus. If you want to be sure that transactions are verified by more than a few nodes, and you don't mind paying these nodes for doing the work, then a public blockchain may be an option for an enterprise blockchain. Usually, public blockchains aren't a good choice for an enterprise blockchain because they are designed to take ...
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