January 2019
Beginner to intermediate
372 pages
11h 17m
English
Content preview from Foundations of Blockchain
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NEO network
NEO uses a networking protocol to establish connections and communicate with each node in a duplex mode. The nodes in the network are categorized into two types based on their responsibilities: the validating nodes (bookkeeping nodes) and the ordinary peer nodes. Peer nodes help broadcast blocks and unconfirmed transactions after they've been validated, whereas bookkeeping nodes generate new blocks. NEO follows a similar networking protocol as Bitcoin to initiate connection and exchange blocks between the peers.
When we launch a NEO shell through NEO-CLI or neo-python, the node will join the network that is specified in the default configuration. A neo-python node can belong to either the main, test, or private network. The NEO ...