Blockchain Development with Hyperledger
by Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny
Individual participants
Hopefully, this category is a fairly obvious one—the teacher, student or bank customer are all examples of individual participants. Whether you call them individuals, people, or even humans, this first category is what we would intuitively think of as a participant because we associate them with ourselves.
You might think that individuals are the most important participants in a network. After all, businesses exist to serve individuals, don't they? Well, yes they do, but it's a little more subtle than that. While a business network usually exists to serve the needs of individual end-consumers, blockchain is a technology that is more valuable for the businesses in the network. That's because it allows them to better ...
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