Introducing Ethereum and Solidity: foundations of cryptocurrency and blockchain programming for beginners

摘要

Bitcoin and other blockchain variants like Ethereum are currently garnering a tremendous amount of professional and public interest. While this undoubtedly is, in part, due to their financial (highly speculative) rise, I was curious to learn more details about the new and admittedly attractive features of this type of peer-to-peer protocol, implementing a cryptographically secured ledger of generalized transactions (to provide a concise and accurate definition of a generic blockchain, albeit not found in this work).