Blockchain
31 stories tagged “Blockchain”.
2023
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Chainlink: Bridging the On-Chain and Off-Chain Worlds
Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network that provides smart contracts with a tamper-proof and highly available connection to all the world's highest-quality data feeds.
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MEV Explained: How Miners and Validators Extract Extra Value from Blockchain Transactions
MEV is a term that describes the total amount measured in cryptocurrency that a miner, validator, or any other network participant could make by strategically influencing the execution of transactions on a blockchain
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What are “Rollups” in Crypto?
Rollups are a way of aggregating transactions and processing them off-chain and publishing the result back to the on-chain.
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Account Abstraction: The Next Big Thing in Web3 Wallets
EIP-4337 aims to abstract out all the intricate details we currently raise related to accounts or wallets.
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Forking in Blockchain: A Double-Edged Sword for Security and Innovation
Forking in the context of blockchain refers to diverging a blockchain’s history into two or more separate paths.
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Satoshi's Ingenious Decision Behind Bitcoin's Non-Turing Completeness
Turing completeness is a concept in computer science that refers to a system or language's ability to simulate a Turing machine, a mathematical model capable of solving any problem that can be described with step-by-step instructions.
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Bitcoin Blocks: The Simple and Easy Way to Understand Bitcoin
A Bitcoin block is a fundamental component of the Bitcoin blockchain.
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Merkle Tree: How Blockchain Ensures Data Integrity and Security
In a blockchain context, a Merkle tree is constructed for the transactions within a block.
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A Simple Guide to Understanding Fantom's Lachesis Protocol and DAG Structure
Fantom is a blockchain platform designed to provide fast and scalable transactions, making it a promising platform for the future of decentralized finance and beyond.
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Merkel Tree: What is it, and how does it work?
A Merkle Tree is a binary tree of hash values, where each leaf node represents a single piece of data or a hash of a piece of data.
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What does Hashrate mean in the Bitcoin Network?
Hashrate is a measure of the computing power of a network that uses the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism, such as Bitcoin.
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Have you got your .eth domain yet?
There is a new trend in the blockchain community: users are grabbing their blockchain-specific domain.
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Why do all transactions and addresses on the blockchain have the prefix 0x?
If you are new to the blockchain, you probably would have set up your Metamask and gotten your first address.
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Let's talk about NFTs
NFT stands for Non-fungible Token. Let's understand this using a simple example.
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The Application and Limitations of Blockchain Technology
What is Blockchain that we all hear about?
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Quantum Computing: a threat on the Integrity of public blockchains
Quantum computing is a new paradigm of computing that uses quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data.
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Zk rollups: How to join the zero-knowledge movement and scale Ethereum to the next level
Zero-knowledge (Zk) rollups are a layer 2 scaling solution that increases throughput on Ethereum by moving computation and state storage off-chain.
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How Avalanche is Revolutionizing the Blockchain Industry with Speed, Scalability, and Interoperability
Avalanche network is an innovative contract platform that aims to improve blockchain technology regarding interoperability, scalability, and usability.
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SegWit: What Is It and How Does It Make Bitcoin Faster and Cheaper?
Segwit is derived from Segregated Witness and is an upgrade to the Bitcoin network that aims to solve several issues, such as scalability, transaction malleability, and block size.
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Smart Contracts: A Simple Guide to Understand, Use, and Deploy Them
Smart contracts are digital contracts or programs, a set of instructions stored on a blockchain that is automatically executed when predetermined terms and conditions are met.
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How to get started with the Decentralized Web?
The web as we know it today is primarily controlled by a few powerful entities that host, manage and monetize our data and content.
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The Ultimate Guide to BRC-20 Tokens and Bitcoin NFTs
To understand the concept of BRC-20, we might first need to start with ERC-20.
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Exploring Solana: The High-Throughput Blockchain and its Tower Byzantine Fault Tolerance (TBFT) Consensus Algorithm
Solana is a high-performance blockchain platform that provides fast and scalable solutions for decentralized applications (dApps) and cryptocurrencies.
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Unlocking Efficiency and Sustainability: The Power of Proof of Stake in Blockchain
Proof of Stake (PoS) is a consensus algorithm used in blockchain networks to achieve agreement on the state of the blockchain and validate transactions.
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The Quest for Digital Gold: Unraveling the Proof of Work Puzzle
Proof-of-Work (PoW) is a consensus algorithm vital in securing and validating transactions in blockchain networks.
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What is IPFS
IPFS, stands for InterPlanetary File System.
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What is Polygon (MATIC)
Polygon is a layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum.
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What is Ethereum
Ethereum is a distributed state machine, it is open source, globally decentralized computing " + "infrastructure that executes programs called smart contracts, that are written in Solidity.
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Bitcoin Network
Bitcoin is structured as a peer-to-peer network architecture on top of " + " the Internet.
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What are Bitcoin Transactions
Transactions are data structures that encode the transfer of value between participants in the bitcoin system.
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What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a distributed, peer-to-peer system.