February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 58m
English
Content preview from Ethereum Smart Contract Development
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Decentralized microblogging
In this section, we are going to explore the design of a basic Ethereum-based microblogging platform. Using these platforms, new users can register to get a personal microblogging account, which they can you to send anonymous tweets to a decentralized Ethereum-based private blockchain, with comments disabled by default.
But why do we need a decentralized blockchain for tweeting, and more importantly why are the users anonymous? To answer this question we need to understand the administrative and security constraints of a normal centralized microblogging platform, which we discuss in the next section.