Skip to Content
Solidity Programming Essentials
book

Solidity Programming Essentials

by Ritesh Modi
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
222 pages
5h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Solidity Programming Essentials

Ethereum mining nodes

A miner is responsible for writing transactions to the Ethereum chain. A miner's job is very similar to that of an accountant. As an accountant is responsible for writing and maintaining the ledger; similarly, a miner is solely responsible for writing a transaction to an Ethereum ledger. A miner is interested in writing transactions to a ledger because of the reward associated with it. Miners get two types of reward—a reward for writing a block to the chain and cumulative gas fees from all transactions in the block. There are generally many miners available within a blockchain network each trying and competing to write transactions. However, only one miner can write the block to the ledger and the rest will not be able ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Solidity Programming Essentials - Second Edition

Solidity Programming Essentials - Second Edition

Ritesh Modi
The Go Programming Language

The Go Programming Language

Alan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan
Linux Kernel Programming

Linux Kernel Programming

Kaiwan N. Billimoria
Programming Rust, 2nd Edition

Programming Rust, 2nd Edition

Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Leonora F. S. Tindall

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781788831383Supplemental Content