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Understanding and Handling Blockchain Uncertainties

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Blockchain is an immutable and transparent distributed ledger hosted by a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. Blockchain provides immutability, transparency, and data integrity to the applications built on top of it.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://infura.io.

  2. 2.

    https://www.ethercluster.com.

  3. 3.

    https://blockchair.com/.

  4. 4.

    Address: 0x06012c8cf97bead5deae237070f9587f8e7a266d.

  5. 5.

    https://www.cryptokitties.co/.

  6. 6.

    https://dice2.win/.

  7. 7.

    Address: 0xd1ceeeeee83f8bcf3bedad437202b6154e9f5405.

  8. 8.

    Address: 0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206994597c13d831ec7.

  9. 9.

    Address: 0xF0155486A14539F784739Be1C02E93F28eB8e960.

  10. 10.

    https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/blob/2a5c5cb740ee8962846ac9d5416-e6b8cc2e7d95d/packages/web3-core-method/src/index.js#L541.

  11. 11.

    https://ens.domains/.

  12. 12.

    https://consensys.github.io/smart-contract-best-practices/software_engineering/.

  13. 13.

    https://provable.xyz/.

  14. 14.

    https://web3js.readthedocs.io/.

  15. 15.

    https://web3js.readthedocs.io/en/v1.2.0/callbacks-promises-events.html.

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    Xiwei Xu, H. M. N. Dilum Bandara, Qinghua Lu, Dawen Zhang & Liming Zhu

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    Xiwei Xu, H. M. N. Dilum Bandara, Qinghua Lu, Dawen Zhang & Liming Zhu

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Xu, X., Bandara, H.M.N.D., Lu, Q., Zhang, D., Zhu, L. (2020). Understanding and Handling Blockchain Uncertainties. In: Chen, Z., Cui, L., Palanisamy, B., Zhang, LJ. (eds) Blockchain – ICBC 2020. ICBC 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12404. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59638-5_8

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