Building Ethereum Dapps

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Chapter 1. A first look at decentralized applications

Figure 1.1. A centralized application is strongly associated with the single entity controlling it. Consequently, users decide whether to access it depending on their trust of the entity.

Figure 1.2. Comparison of a centralized voting application with a decentralized one. One institution owns all servers of a centralized application. A decentralized voting application runs simultaneously on multiple nodes of a network that different entities own.

Figure 1.3. A decentralized voting application is exposed to the voter as a web application, which contains both HTML and JavaScript and is downloaded from a conventional web server. The web application, which doesn’t contain any ...