October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
530 pages
14h 25m
English
When starting to develop applications to be run on the blockchain, the technologies that you will need depend on whether you will allow anyone to join and write data on your blockchain, or whether only known, (partly) trusted entities will be allowed to join and write data. Generally speaking, there are two kinds of blockchains: public, or permissionless, and private, or permissioned. A public blockchain is not specifically owned by anyone, whereas a private blockchain can be owned by a single entity or by a consortium (group of entities). As explained throughout this chapter, both public and private blockchains use the same technologies, but this is where the similarities end.
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