November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
13h 21m
English
In the previous chapter, you learned about major concepts behind Bitcoin by building a payment system based on the Bitcoin payment protocol. Alongside this, you took earlier advantage of projects such as Rootstock to enable advanced smart contract capabilities. However, there is no better way to cement and deepen your understanding of the blockchain than to build your own cryptocurrency. Although building a currency from scratch is beyond the scope of this book, you will examine instead how to build your own cryptocurrency based on the existing Bitcoin code base.
In this chapter, we'll cover the basic concepts necessary to build an alternative cryptocurrency (known as an altcoin) that offers almost all the ...
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