February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 58m
English
Content preview from Ethereum Smart Contract Development
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Hardware clients and internet
As we have wrapped up our under-the-hood session on swarm, whisper, and EVM, let us move on to the remaining elements of the Ethereum tech stack, which are hardware clients and the internet. The hardware clients will be covered in greater detail in the Ethereum mining section. As of now, it is sufficient to know that normal commodity hardware like CPUs and GPUs are used as hardware clients for Ethereum.
Let us now discuss the internet layer of the Ethereum tech stack, which is basically the Ethereum blockchain. As we have already discussed the blockchain structure for Ethereum in Chapter 1, Blockchain Basics, here we will cover only the logical positioning of Ethereum blockchain over the surface web.
We will ...