Blockchain Development with Hyperledger
by Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny
The utility of events
We now see why we've added events to our definition of a business network. Events allow the business network to be almost infinitely flexible. Revel in this little bit of chaos—it might be in some sense a little less analyzable, and that's OK. The real world isn't analyzable anyway—events provide a highly efficient coordination mechanism between participants so that important change gets agreed and recorded via multi-party transactions.
Congratulations! Remember that definition of a business network?
A business network is a collection of participants and assets than undergo a life cycle described by transactions. Events occur when transactions complete.
We've realized that those couple of sentences are maybe a little ...
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