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Blockchain across Oracle
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Blockchain across Oracle

by Robert van Molken, Sven Bernhardt, Francisco Arturo Viveros
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
530 pages
14h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Blocks

In Chapter 3Blockchain 101 - Assets, Transactions, and Hashes, I explained that when assets are transferred from one entity to another, they are recorded as a transaction. A blockchain sees a great deal of transaction activity, so instead of recording every transaction separately, the transactions executed during a given period of time are permanently recorded in a block. Each block is made up of a list of transactions. Think of it as a paper ledger or notebook where an individual page holds multiple records. In this case, each page represents a block.

How many transactions each block can hold depends on the configured block size of the blockchain and the payload size of the combined transactions. It does not mean that a block always ...

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ISBN: 9781788474290