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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger
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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

by Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
636 pages
27h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Application and transaction stages

The first step in the creation of an application is the instantiation of the blockchain, or the shared ledger itself. In Fabric parlance, an instance of a blockchain is referred to as a channel, and therefore the first step in a blockchain application is the creation of a channel and the bootstrapping of the network ordering service with the channel's genesis block.

The next step is the initialization of the peer network, whereby all the peer nodes selected to run the application must be joined to the channel, a process that allows each peer to maintain a copy of the ledger, which is initialized to a blank key-value store. Every peer that's joined to the channel will possess ledger commitment privileges ...

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ISBN: 9781838649982