Introduction to Blockchain and Ethereum by Maldonado, Fatima Castiglione -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface

About the Book

About the Author Objectives Audience Approach Minimum Hardware Requirements Software Requirements Installing the Code Bundle Additional Resources Conventions

Ethereum Blockchain

Introduction Introducing the Ethereum Blockchain

The Blockchain Data Structure Public Key Cryptography Distributed Ledgers Consensus Mechanism Introducing Cryptocurrencies Introducing Networks and Smart Contracts

Cryptology and Keys

Traditional Codes and Cryptography New Cryptography

Opening an Ethereum Account

Account Numbers and their Associated Private Keys Wallets Exercise 1: Creating a Wallet and Safeguarding its Information Private Keys and Public Keys Using your Wallet Exercise 2: Getting the Toy Ether from the Rinkeby Test Network

The Ethereum Network, Nodes, and Mining

The Ethereum Network Nodes Mining

Transactions and Blocks

Transactions and Calls Calls Exercise 3: Calling the Ethereum Network Transactions, Transaction Hashes, and Gas Blocks and Block Hashes Confirmations

Sending and Checking Transactions

Sending Transactions Exercise 4: Sending and Receiving Transactions Receiving Transactions Checking Transactions

Summary

Learning Solidity

Introduction The Solidity Language Your First Smart Contract

Activity 1: Creating an Ethereum Token Exercise 5: Using Remix to Compile Our Token

Basic Solidity

Solidity Data Types Global and Local Variables Collections Mappings Exercise 6: Creating Our Own Collection

Testing Solidity

Summary

Solidity Contracts

Introduction Your First dApp

Architecture of a dApp Ganache Exercise 8: Using MetaMask to connect to Ganache Voting Contract Compiling and Deploying Contracts A Simple Web Page

Using an Oracle

Interface Payment Calculating Payments Request Types Functions and Getters

Summary