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Hi Michael,
From the table of contents, your book looks like it covers every aspect of a Blockchain App.  As someone who doesn't know very much about the entire process ,that's  great.
When people talk about Blockchain applications they tend to be referring to Etherium and Smart  Contracts. I was wondering does the Bitcoin domain have a similar infrastructure ?
No one really writes about  that very much. If not , how are Bitcoin transactions handled programatically ?

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Paul
 
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When we talk about blockchain apps, we talk about web apps that use blockchain as the backend. Blockchain provides an alternative to database and app servers. Why do we do that? That is because any database (e.g., MySQL) or app server (e.g., Node) can be shutdown or changed without notice. You can not change the data or code on blockchains without a record.

* Blockchain itself provides a ledger and can store data -- hence an alternative to databases
* Blockchain smart contracts can execute code logic -- hence an alternative to app servers

To answer your question about Bitcoin, the Bitcoin blockchain is designed to handle coin transactions not arbitrary logic. There is a scripting language for Bitcoin, but few people use it. Ethereum is designed with a Turing complete virtual machine at the center -- so it is much more like a generic "computer".

The new generation of Ethereum uses WebAssembly as its runtime. I believe that is a big step toward a much more mainstream application server environment on blockchains.
 
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