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Hands-On Blockchain for Python Developers
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Hands-On Blockchain for Python Developers

by Arjuna Sky Kok
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
9h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Considerations when building a cryptocurrency wallet

You have now created a desktop cryptocurrency wallet. However, this wallet is not yet complete. A cryptocurrency wallet is a vast topic that changes so often that a book could be written on this topic alone. There are other features you can implement into a cryptocurrency wallet application, such as how many blocks have been confirmed for this transaction. In our application, we only wait for one transaction, but some users may want to confirm a couple of blocks first. If the transaction is confirmed with only one block, there is a slight chance that it could be replaced with a longer block. However, after 12 blocks, the transaction in the block is pretty much secure and irreversible, as ...

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