January 2019
Beginner to intermediate
372 pages
11h 17m
English
Content preview from Foundations of Blockchain
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Networking in Blockchain
In the previous chapters, we covered the cryptography concepts that are essential for blockchain to function in a trustless network. But we haven't discussed what a trustless network is. A decentralized network facilitates a trustless environment. In this chapter, we will explore how blockchain achieves decentralization with peer-to-peer (P2P) networking.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- P2P networking
- Network discovery
- Block synchronization
- Building a simple blockchain in a P2P network
We know that blockchain was created to remove the trust in a single central authority by building a trustless network that decentralizes all the tasks that are otherwise centralized in a single entity. P2P networking ...