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Securing Blockchain Networks like Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric
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Securing Blockchain Networks like Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric

by Alessandro Parisi
April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
244 pages
7h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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DLTs as permissioned blockchains

Permissioned blockchains are traced back to DLTs as they mainly meet the needs of those organizations interested in managing a shared ledger exclusively internally. In practice, although constituting decentralized ledgers, permissioned blockchains distinguish the nodes of the network based on their roles and on the basis of the privileges assigned to them.

Recall that in permissionless (public) blockchains, no distinctions are made between nodes. Furthermore, in public blockchains, the transaction ledger is practically unchangeable, while in permissioned blockchains the possibility of modifying transactions is far from excluded. Usually, permissioned blockchains use a consensus algorithm different from PoW, ...

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