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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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Architecture of a video-sharing web application

We will develop a Python web application to use as the frontend for our smart contract. This means we need a proper server to become the host for the Python web application. For this, we at least need a Gunicorn web server. In other words, we need to host our Python web application in a centralized server, such as in AWS, GCP, or Azure. This is actually fine for viewing videos, but the problem arises when a user wants to upload a video because that requires accessing a private key. Users may become concerned that our Python web application on a centralized server would steal their private keys.

So, the solution is to post the source code of our Python web application on GitHub or GitLab, then ...

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