August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
13h 52m
English
Content preview from Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity
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Attack resistance
A blockchain network does not have centralized control. The network's resistance to attacks is maintained by the miners who are putting their processing power (using nodes) into use to guard against malicious attacks. These miners earn some incentives to keep the network safe by behaving honestly. This is done by using the distributed network and cryptographic techniques.