January 2019
Beginner to intermediate
372 pages
11h 17m
English
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The life cycle of BigchainDB transactions
The life cycle of BigchainDB transactions consists of the following steps:
Creating a transaction
BigchainDB transactions can be created and broadcast to the network by any user as long as the created transaction conforms to the BigchainDB Transactions Spec, which defines the expected keys and values of a transaction.
Transactions are usually created using the drivers provided by BigchainDB. There's a list of drivers available in a variety of programming languages, including Python and JavaScript.
The following JSON structure shows all the fields of the transaction. BigchainDB transactions consist of input and output, which is similar to Bitcoin transactions. Additionally, each transaction has an ...