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Blockchain Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Blockchain Quick Start Guide A beginner's guide to developing enterprise-grade decentralized applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789807974
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Xun (Brian) Wu Xun (Brian) Wu
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Weimin Sun Weimin Sun
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Preface 1. Introduction to Blockchain Technology FREE CHAPTER 2. Ethereum Fundamentals 3. Overview of Solidity Programming 4. Building an Ethereum Blockchain Application 5. Exploring an Enterprise Blockchain Application Using Hyperledger Fabric 6. Implementing Business Networks Using Hyperledger Composer 7. Blockchain Use Cases 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Core component model

To run Hyperledger Fabric, we need a few main components; these are a Membership Service Provider (MSP), Fabric CA, peers, and an ordering service. We need to understand exactly how they work and the way to collect them.

Peers

The peers are the physical layer where the ledger data is stored and the chaincode is processed. A blockchain network is comprised primarily of a set of peer nodes. Every peer maintains its own copy of the shared ledger and is certified by a single MSP. The peer can have two roles: endorsing nodes or committing nodes.

The endorsing node processes transaction proposals and it returns the signed result to the client.

The ordering service sends a block of transactions...

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