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Building Blockchain Projects

You're reading from   Building Blockchain Projects Building decentralized Blockchain applications with Ethereum and Solidity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787122147
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
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Preface 1. Understanding Decentralized Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding How Ethereum Works 3. Writing Smart Contracts 4. Getting Started with web3.js 5. Building a Wallet Service 6. Building a Smart Contract Deployment Platform 7. Building a Betting App 8. Building Enterprise Level Smart Contracts 9. Building a Consortium Blockchain

Building a client for the betting contract


To make it easy to find match's IDs, deploy, and invest in contracts, we need to build a UI client. So let's get started with building a client, which will have two paths, that is, the home path to deploy contracts and bet on matches and the other path to find the list of matches. We will let users deploy and bet using their own offline accounts so that the entire process of betting happens in a decentralized manner and nobody can cheat.

Before we start building our client, make sure that you have testnet synced because Oraclize works only on Ethereum's testnet/mainnet and not on private networks. You can switch to testnet and start downloading the testnet blockchain by replacing the --dev option with the --testnet option. For example, take a look at the following:

geth --testnet --rpc --rpccorsdomain "*" --rpcaddr "0.0.0.0" --rpcport "8545"

Projecting the structure

In the exercise files of this chapter, you will find two directories, that is, Final...

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