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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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This chapter intended to give you an intuitive understanding of how blockchain works. However, it's not a complete scope of how it works. My explanation differs quite a lot from how Bitcoin works (and even Ethereum). Ethereum does not use SHA-256 for hashing; it commonly uses the Keccak-256 algorithm. In our case, we only put one history/transaction/payload in one block, but Bitcoin can save more than 1,000 transactions in one block. Then, we generate a private key and public key by using RSA cryptography, while Bitcoin and Ethereum use elliptic curve cryptography. In our case, the payload is history (who likes/loves/hates an animal), but in Bitcoin it's a transaction that has a dependency on the previous ...

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