August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
13h 52m
English
Content preview from Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity
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Ethereum is for writing decentralized applications
As discussed before, Bitcoin uses blockchain technology for payments using bitcoins as a currency. Bitcoin also supports a scripting language, with which you can write small scripts. Bitcoin scripts have limited functionalities and it is difficult to write complex scripts on it. Its scripting language is also not Turing-complete (it does not support loops). Bitcoin transactions are slow; normally, it gets processed in 10 minutes or more.
With Ethereum, writing complex smart contracts and utilizing other properties of blockchain becomes easy. Any programmer who knows Java, JavaScript, and other programming languages can easily learn to code in the Solidity language. Solidity is a Turing-complete ...