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Ethereum Smart Contract Development

You're reading from   Ethereum Smart Contract Development Build blockchain-based decentralized applications using solidity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473040
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mayukh Mukhopadhyay Mayukh Mukhopadhyay
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Preface 1. Blockchain Basics 2. Grokking Ethereum FREE CHAPTER 3. Hello World of Smart Contracts 4. A Noob's Guide to DApps and DAO 5. Deep-Diving into Smart Contracts 6. Solidity in Depth 7. Primer on Web3.js 8. Developing a Cryptocurrency from Scratch 9. Enterprise Use Cases 10. BaaS and the Dark Web Market 11. Advanced Topics and the Road Ahead 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding DApps

Creation of new life always fascinates us, even more so when we are a part of such creation. For instance, consider a zygote cell. Smaller than a tiny speck of sand, it has the ability to grow into a complex biological entity, breathing life into a newborn infant.

But why are we talking about zygotes rather than DApps? Well, a zygote signifies that juncture when one biological cell's generation ends and the next one begins. It acclimates, responding to the outside world without any genetic changes. A zygote cannot be regulated, as it is stuck with its own genes. It can only grow recursively. A zygote is also autonomous. This is because it is still a cell; it's formation is rapidly distributed during the cleavage phase and it is authorized to act as a single entity, apart from other cells. In fact, a zygote is the perfect metaphor of a decentralized...

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