The main things you need to know about blockchain:
+ What Is A Blockchain. Theory
+ Ordering Facts
+ Blocks
+ Mining
+ Money and Cryptocurrencies
+ Contracts
Intro to Blockchain - And, by the way, what the heck is proof-of-work?Jim Flynn
An overview of bitcoin and the blockchain with a more in-depth description of proof of work (POW). Conde samples used to demonstrate the concepts behind POW are available at http://jamespflynn.com.
Bitcoin and blockchain are not the same things, although they are related in that blockchain technology was first described and implemented in Bitcoin. Learn More about Blockchain:
This is a presentation is an introduction to the blockchain. It defines, what is the blockchain and shows how JavaScript developers can create blockchain applications.
A brief introduction to Blockchain and the underlying technology of distributed computing, challenges and future scope.
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I would like to thank various blogs, technical tutorials, books, videos to help me understand the basics and collate this presentaion
Intro to Blockchain - And, by the way, what the heck is proof-of-work?Jim Flynn
An overview of bitcoin and the blockchain with a more in-depth description of proof of work (POW). Conde samples used to demonstrate the concepts behind POW are available at http://jamespflynn.com.
Bitcoin and blockchain are not the same things, although they are related in that blockchain technology was first described and implemented in Bitcoin. Learn More about Blockchain:
This is a presentation is an introduction to the blockchain. It defines, what is the blockchain and shows how JavaScript developers can create blockchain applications.
A brief introduction to Blockchain and the underlying technology of distributed computing, challenges and future scope.
Copyrights belong to the respective owners, intention is purely for informational/educational purpose
I would like to thank various blogs, technical tutorials, books, videos to help me understand the basics and collate this presentaion
Bitcoin, Blockchain and the Crypto Contracts - Part 2Prithwis Mukerjee
Where we explain how the cryptographic ideas are used to create a crypto asset on the block chain. This one part of a three part slide deck. For the full deck and the context please visit http://bit.ly/pm-bbc
A research-oriented introduction to the cryptographic currencies (starting wi...vpnmentor
Presentation by Stefan Dziembowski, associate professor and leader of Cryptology and Data Security Group University of Warsaw. In BIU workshop on Bitcoin. Covered exclusively by vpnMentor.com
Presentation by Stefan Dziembowski, associate professor and leader of Cryptology and Data Security Group University of Warsaw. In BIU workshop on Bitcoin. Covered exclusively by vpnMentor.com
This slidedeck was used at the second Blockchain Vlaanderen meetup in Antwerp. It was given as a general introduction into Blockchain to enable newcomers to follow the presentations that followed.
Bits, Blocks, and Chains: A Concise Examination of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency...Richard Givens
An overview of cryptocurrency, with a focus on Bitcoin, and an explanation of the processes involved in creating it, with a focus on novice understanding.
Blockchain, cryptography and tokens — NYC Bar presentationPaperchain
Concise version of presentation delivered at the NYC Bar Association.
Overview of blockchains, how cryptography works on blockchains and the difference between cryptocurrencies and tokens.
Blockchain Satellites - The Future of Space CommerceHasshi Sudler
Presentation made on 10/26/2020 outlining the launch of the first private blockchain into space on the Firefly Aerospace rocket planned for late December, 2020. This presentation is delivered by Hasshi Sudler and Alejandro Gomez of Villanova University and Elizabeth Kennick and Joe Latrell of Teachers In Space.
I spent quite some time to digest how Blockchain works and how it can influence our everyday life in the upcoming decades. My slides focus on that from a non-IT expert point view.
I am sending you 1π! Pi is a new digital currency developed by Stanford PhDs, with over 9 million members worldwide. To claim your Pi, follow this link https://minepi.com/krishvikram and use my username (krishvikram) as your invitation code.
Step 1. Install the Pi app with above link
Step 2 verify the profile
Step 3 tap on earnings and share your link and increase your earnings
Step 4 verification type the referral code which is mandatory.
Referral code is : krishvikram
During this presentation, we will cover a brief introduction into Blockchain technology, historic use cases & emerging trends for Blockchain technology. We will also touch on what to expect from Blockchain technology in 2019. It is important to understand the progress that is being achieved every day with every single step we take towards real use cases for Blockchain projects. 2019 might be the first year where the Blockchain starts to become a central part in people’s lives and in some industries.
Main points covered:
• Conduct a brief introduction to Blockchain technology;
• Discuss both historic use cases and emerging trends for Blockchain technology;
• What to expect from Blockchain technology in 2019
Presenter:
Our presenter for this webinar is Kenneth Kimbel, a Cybersecurity professional with over five years of overall experience providing diverse technology services in client-facing roles. Recent Master’s in Cybersecurity Risk Management as well as a JD with a Cybersecurity Law focus. Currently, Kenneth is a data privacy and Cybersecurity Advisory Consultant with Deloitte. He is also knowledgeable on both current technical and legal issues in security.
Date: March 27th, 2019
Recorded webinar: https://youtu.be/fLjVgj6MAPY
The project deals about how blockchain works, proof-of-work and merkle tree hash function. The project also tries to explain how the bitcoin uses ECDSA algorithmt power the cryptography.
At a very high level, the Blockchain is a decentralized ledger, or list, of all transactions across a peer-to-peer network. This is the technology underlying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and it has the potential to disrupt a wide variety of business processes.
In this case study, we are providing information about the Introduction of Blockchain Technology, Bitcoin and its environment setup, Ethereum coin, other cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin in education, and a case study of healthcare using blockchain.
Bitcoin, Blockchain and the Crypto Contracts - Part 2Prithwis Mukerjee
Where we explain how the cryptographic ideas are used to create a crypto asset on the block chain. This one part of a three part slide deck. For the full deck and the context please visit http://bit.ly/pm-bbc
A research-oriented introduction to the cryptographic currencies (starting wi...vpnmentor
Presentation by Stefan Dziembowski, associate professor and leader of Cryptology and Data Security Group University of Warsaw. In BIU workshop on Bitcoin. Covered exclusively by vpnMentor.com
Presentation by Stefan Dziembowski, associate professor and leader of Cryptology and Data Security Group University of Warsaw. In BIU workshop on Bitcoin. Covered exclusively by vpnMentor.com
This slidedeck was used at the second Blockchain Vlaanderen meetup in Antwerp. It was given as a general introduction into Blockchain to enable newcomers to follow the presentations that followed.
Bits, Blocks, and Chains: A Concise Examination of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency...Richard Givens
An overview of cryptocurrency, with a focus on Bitcoin, and an explanation of the processes involved in creating it, with a focus on novice understanding.
Blockchain, cryptography and tokens — NYC Bar presentationPaperchain
Concise version of presentation delivered at the NYC Bar Association.
Overview of blockchains, how cryptography works on blockchains and the difference between cryptocurrencies and tokens.
Blockchain Satellites - The Future of Space CommerceHasshi Sudler
Presentation made on 10/26/2020 outlining the launch of the first private blockchain into space on the Firefly Aerospace rocket planned for late December, 2020. This presentation is delivered by Hasshi Sudler and Alejandro Gomez of Villanova University and Elizabeth Kennick and Joe Latrell of Teachers In Space.
I spent quite some time to digest how Blockchain works and how it can influence our everyday life in the upcoming decades. My slides focus on that from a non-IT expert point view.
I am sending you 1π! Pi is a new digital currency developed by Stanford PhDs, with over 9 million members worldwide. To claim your Pi, follow this link https://minepi.com/krishvikram and use my username (krishvikram) as your invitation code.
Step 1. Install the Pi app with above link
Step 2 verify the profile
Step 3 tap on earnings and share your link and increase your earnings
Step 4 verification type the referral code which is mandatory.
Referral code is : krishvikram
During this presentation, we will cover a brief introduction into Blockchain technology, historic use cases & emerging trends for Blockchain technology. We will also touch on what to expect from Blockchain technology in 2019. It is important to understand the progress that is being achieved every day with every single step we take towards real use cases for Blockchain projects. 2019 might be the first year where the Blockchain starts to become a central part in people’s lives and in some industries.
Main points covered:
• Conduct a brief introduction to Blockchain technology;
• Discuss both historic use cases and emerging trends for Blockchain technology;
• What to expect from Blockchain technology in 2019
Presenter:
Our presenter for this webinar is Kenneth Kimbel, a Cybersecurity professional with over five years of overall experience providing diverse technology services in client-facing roles. Recent Master’s in Cybersecurity Risk Management as well as a JD with a Cybersecurity Law focus. Currently, Kenneth is a data privacy and Cybersecurity Advisory Consultant with Deloitte. He is also knowledgeable on both current technical and legal issues in security.
Date: March 27th, 2019
Recorded webinar: https://youtu.be/fLjVgj6MAPY
The project deals about how blockchain works, proof-of-work and merkle tree hash function. The project also tries to explain how the bitcoin uses ECDSA algorithmt power the cryptography.
At a very high level, the Blockchain is a decentralized ledger, or list, of all transactions across a peer-to-peer network. This is the technology underlying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and it has the potential to disrupt a wide variety of business processes.
In this case study, we are providing information about the Introduction of Blockchain Technology, Bitcoin and its environment setup, Ethereum coin, other cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin in education, and a case study of healthcare using blockchain.
Blockchain Technology Explained
You must have heard about the term “blockchain,” in reference to Bitcoin and othercryptocurrencies.
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A free-flowing, non-technical guide to NFTs.
The guide starts with blockchain basics and gradually builds to explain NFT use cases in the metaverse and how brands are using NFTs to engage with customers.
A lot of resources are added towards the end to let the reader continue her journey in the web3.
38 C O M M U N I C AT I O N S O F T H E A C M M A.docxdomenicacullison
38 C O M M U N I C AT I O N S O F T H E A C M | M A R C H 2 0 1 9 | V O L . 6 2 | N O . 3
practice
I T I S D I F F I C U LT these days to avoid hearing about
blockchain. Blockchain is going to be the foundation
of a new business world based on smart contracts.
It is going to allow everyone to trace the provenance of
their food, the parts in the items they buy, or the ideas
they hear. It will change the way we work, the way the
economy runs, and the way we live in general.
Despite the significant potential of blockchain, it is
also difficult to find a consistent description of what
it really is. A recent Google search for “blockchain
technical papers” returned nothing but white
papers for the first three screens; not a single paper
is peer-reviewed. One of the best discussions of the
technology itself is from the National Institute of
Standards and Technology, but at 50-plus pages, it is a
bit much for a quick read.9
The purpose of this article is to look
at the basics of blockchain: the indi-
vidual components, how those com-
ponents fit together, and what changes
might be made to solve some of the
problems with blockchain technology.
This technology is far from monolithic;
some of the techniques can be used (at
surprising savings of resources and ef-
fort) if other parts are cut away.
Because there is no single set of
technical specifications, some systems
that claim to be blockchain instances
will differ from the system described
here. Much of this description is taken
from the original blockchain paper.6
While details may differ, the main
ideas stay the same.
Goals of Blockchain
The original objective of the block-
chain system was to support “an elec-
tronic payment system based on cryp-
tographic proof instead of trust …”6
While the scope of use has grown con-
siderably, the basic goals and require-
ments have remained consistent.
The first of these goals is to ensure
the anonymity of blockchain’s users.
This is accomplished by use of a pub-
lic/private key pair, in a fashion that is
reasonably well known and not rein-
vented by the blockchain technology.
Each participant is identified by the
public key, and authentication is ac-
complished through signing with the
private key. Since this is not specific
to blockchain, it is not considered
further here.
The second goal is to provide a pub-
lic record or ledger of a set of transac-
tions that cannot be altered once veri-
fied and agreed to. This was originally
designed to keep users of electronic
currency from double-spending and to
allow public audit of all transactions.
The ledger is a record of what transac-
tions have taken place, and the order
of those transactions. The use of this
ledger for verification of transactions
other than the exchange of electronic
cash has been the main extension of
the blockchain technology.
The final core goal is for the system
A Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the
Blockchain
Un.
BlockChain basics for the non-technical banker covering what's happening, what the opportunities are, and the problems we all face. Covers BitCoin and Ethereum with brief mentions made of Ripple and the HyperLedger project.
Blockchain Facts_What Is It, How IT Works and How Can It Be Used.pdfHarry977415
An Article detailing what a blockchain is, how it works and how it can be used ,it has some general information Regarding uses , area it is found and information on the pros and cons.
Blockchain Technology And CryptocurrencyEno Bassey
A brief presenation about blockchain and understand cryptocurrency. Find out what it is and why you need to know about it. How you can get involved and how it may change the world as we know it.
Go provides:
+ Concurrent execution
+ Synchronization and messaging
+ Multi-way concurrent control
Go does NOT provide direct thread manipulation
- Go multithreading is fully managed by Go runtime.
- In Go you use goroutines in place of threads
Learn about Goroutines, channels and standard library
+ What is domain logic?
+ Domain logic patterns:
* Transaction script
* Domain model
* Table module
* Service layer
+ Conclusion
by Pavlo Livchak, Software Engineer at ElifTech
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6 . What's under the hood? Understanding CoreCLR and IL
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Polymer is a Google's attempt to introduce principles that were intended to get ahead of their time (HTML templates, custom elements, shadow DOM, HTML imports), but trends went into another direction. Google uses Polymer in its products including (but not limited to) YouTube, Google Music, Google Earth, but there is hardly any interest to Polymer from the community. Thus, you can develop a rich web application with Polymer, but it's hard to find documentation and examples.
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TROUBLESHOOTING 9 TYPES OF OUTOFMEMORYERRORTier1 app
Even though at surface level ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError’ appears as one single error; underlyingly there are 9 types of OutOfMemoryError. Each type of OutOfMemoryError has different causes, diagnosis approaches and solutions. This session equips you with the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to troubleshoot and conquer OutOfMemoryError in all its forms, ensuring smoother, more efficient Java applications.
Top Features to Include in Your Winzo Clone App for Business Growth (4).pptxrickgrimesss22
Discover the essential features to incorporate in your Winzo clone app to boost business growth, enhance user engagement, and drive revenue. Learn how to create a compelling gaming experience that stands out in the competitive market.
Understanding Globus Data Transfers with NetSageGlobus
NetSage is an open privacy-aware network measurement, analysis, and visualization service designed to help end-users visualize and reason about large data transfers. NetSage traditionally has used a combination of passive measurements, including SNMP and flow data, as well as active measurements, mainly perfSONAR, to provide longitudinal network performance data visualization. It has been deployed by dozens of networks world wide, and is supported domestically by the Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC), NSF #2328479. We have recently expanded the NetSage data sources to include logs for Globus data transfers, following the same privacy-preserving approach as for Flow data. Using the logs for the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) as an example, this talk will walk through several different example use cases that NetSage can answer, including: Who is using Globus to share data with my institution, and what kind of performance are they able to achieve? How many transfers has Globus supported for us? Which sites are we sharing the most data with, and how is that changing over time? How is my site using Globus to move data internally, and what kind of performance do we see for those transfers? What percentage of data transfers at my institution used Globus, and how did the overall data transfer performance compare to the Globus users?
Exploring Innovations in Data Repository Solutions - Insights from the U.S. G...Globus
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has made substantial investments in meeting evolving scientific, technical, and policy driven demands on storing, managing, and delivering data. As these demands continue to grow in complexity and scale, the USGS must continue to explore innovative solutions to improve its management, curation, sharing, delivering, and preservation approaches for large-scale research data. Supporting these needs, the USGS has partnered with the University of Chicago-Globus to research and develop advanced repository components and workflows leveraging its current investment in Globus. The primary outcome of this partnership includes the development of a prototype enterprise repository, driven by USGS Data Release requirements, through exploration and implementation of the entire suite of the Globus platform offerings, including Globus Flow, Globus Auth, Globus Transfer, and Globus Search. This presentation will provide insights into this research partnership, introduce the unique requirements and challenges being addressed and provide relevant project progress.
Enhancing Research Orchestration Capabilities at ORNL.pdfGlobus
Cross-facility research orchestration comes with ever-changing constraints regarding the availability and suitability of various compute and data resources. In short, a flexible data and processing fabric is needed to enable the dynamic redirection of data and compute tasks throughout the lifecycle of an experiment. In this talk, we illustrate how we easily leveraged Globus services to instrument the ACE research testbed at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility with flexible data and task orchestration capabilities.
Enterprise Resource Planning System includes various modules that reduce any business's workload. Additionally, it organizes the workflows, which drives towards enhancing productivity. Here are a detailed explanation of the ERP modules. Going through the points will help you understand how the software is changing the work dynamics.
To know more details here: https://blogs.nyggs.com/nyggs/enterprise-resource-planning-erp-system-modules/
May Marketo Masterclass, London MUG May 22 2024.pdfAdele Miller
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Prosigns: Transforming Business with Tailored Technology SolutionsProsigns
Unlocking Business Potential: Tailored Technology Solutions by Prosigns
Discover how Prosigns, a leading technology solutions provider, partners with businesses to drive innovation and success. Our presentation showcases our comprehensive range of services, including custom software development, web and mobile app development, AI & ML solutions, blockchain integration, DevOps services, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 support.
Custom Software Development: Prosigns specializes in creating bespoke software solutions that cater to your unique business needs. Our team of experts works closely with you to understand your requirements and deliver tailor-made software that enhances efficiency and drives growth.
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SOCRadar Research Team: Latest Activities of IntelBrokerSOCRadar
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has suffered an alleged data breach after a notorious threat actor claimed to have exfiltrated data from its systems. Infamous data leaker IntelBroker posted on the even more infamous BreachForums hacking forum, saying that Europol suffered a data breach this month.
The alleged breach affected Europol agencies CCSE, EC3, Europol Platform for Experts, Law Enforcement Forum, and SIRIUS. Infiltration of these entities can disrupt ongoing investigations and compromise sensitive intelligence shared among international law enforcement agencies.
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Developing Distributed High-performance Computing Capabilities of an Open Sci...Globus
COVID-19 had an unprecedented impact on scientific collaboration. The pandemic and its broad response from the scientific community has forged new relationships among public health practitioners, mathematical modelers, and scientific computing specialists, while revealing critical gaps in exploiting advanced computing systems to support urgent decision making. Informed by our team’s work in applying high-performance computing in support of public health decision makers during the COVID-19 pandemic, we present how Globus technologies are enabling the development of an open science platform for robust epidemic analysis, with the goal of collaborative, secure, distributed, on-demand, and fast time-to-solution analyses to support public health.
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Providing Globus Services to Users of JASMIN for Environmental Data AnalysisGlobus
JASMIN is the UK’s high-performance data analysis platform for environmental science, operated by STFC on behalf of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). In addition to its role in hosting the CEDA Archive (NERC’s long-term repository for climate, atmospheric science & Earth observation data in the UK), JASMIN provides a collaborative platform to a community of around 2,000 scientists in the UK and beyond, providing nearly 400 environmental science projects with working space, compute resources and tools to facilitate their work. High-performance data transfer into and out of JASMIN has always been a key feature, with many scientists bringing model outputs from supercomputers elsewhere in the UK, to analyse against observational or other model data in the CEDA Archive. A growing number of JASMIN users are now realising the benefits of using the Globus service to provide reliable and efficient data movement and other tasks in this and other contexts. Further use cases involve long-distance (intercontinental) transfers to and from JASMIN, and collecting results from a mobile atmospheric radar system, pushing data to JASMIN via a lightweight Globus deployment. We provide details of how Globus fits into our current infrastructure, our experience of the recent migration to GCSv5.4, and of our interest in developing use of the wider ecosystem of Globus services for the benefit of our user community.
Climate Science Flows: Enabling Petabyte-Scale Climate Analysis with the Eart...Globus
The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is a global network of data servers that archives and distributes the planet’s largest collection of Earth system model output for thousands of climate and environmental scientists worldwide. Many of these petabyte-scale data archives are located in proximity to large high-performance computing (HPC) or cloud computing resources, but the primary workflow for data users consists of transferring data, and applying computations on a different system. As a part of the ESGF 2.0 US project (funded by the United States Department of Energy Office of Science), we developed pre-defined data workflows, which can be run on-demand, capable of applying many data reduction and data analysis to the large ESGF data archives, transferring only the resultant analysis (ex. visualizations, smaller data files). In this talk, we will showcase a few of these workflows, highlighting how Globus Flows can be used for petabyte-scale climate analysis.
First Steps with Globus Compute Multi-User EndpointsGlobus
In this presentation we will share our experiences around getting started with the Globus Compute multi-user endpoint. Working with the Pharmacology group at the University of Auckland, we have previously written an application using Globus Compute that can offload computationally expensive steps in the researcher's workflows, which they wish to manage from their familiar Windows environments, onto the NeSI (New Zealand eScience Infrastructure) cluster. Some of the challenges we have encountered were that each researcher had to set up and manage their own single-user globus compute endpoint and that the workloads had varying resource requirements (CPUs, memory and wall time) between different runs. We hope that the multi-user endpoint will help to address these challenges and share an update on our progress here.
Large Language Models and the End of ProgrammingMatt Welsh
Talk by Matt Welsh at Craft Conference 2024 on the impact that Large Language Models will have on the future of software development. In this talk, I discuss the ways in which LLMs will impact the software industry, from replacing human software developers with AI, to replacing conventional software with models that perform reasoning, computation, and problem-solving.
A Comprehensive Look at Generative AI in Retail App Testing.pdfkalichargn70th171
Traditional software testing methods are being challenged in retail, where customer expectations and technological advancements continually shape the landscape. Enter generative AI—a transformative subset of artificial intelligence technologies poised to revolutionize software testing.
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● What Is A Blockchain. Theory
● Ordering Facts
● Blocks
● Mining
● Money and Cryptocurrencies
● Contracts
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Theory
Blockchain was created to support Bitcoin, the blockchain concept can be defined
regardless of the Bitcoin ecosystem. The literature usually defines a blockchain as
follows:
A blockchain is a ledger of facts, replicated across several computers assembled in a
peer-to-peer network. Facts can be anything from monetary transactions to content
signature. Members of the network are anonymous individuals called nodes. All
communication inside the network takes advantage of cryptography to securely
identify the sender and the receiver. When a node wants to add a fact to the ledger, a
consensus forms in the network to determine where this fact should appear in the
ledger; this consensus is called a block.
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Theory
If two incompatible facts arrive at the same time, the system must have rules to determine
which fact is considered valid.
Take for instance the double spend problem: Alice has 10$, and she sends twice 10$ to Bob
and Charlie. Who will have the 10$ eventually? To answer this question, the best way is to
order the facts. If two incompatible facts arrive in the network, the first one to be recorded
wins.
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Theory
In a P2P network, two facts sent roughly at the same time may arrive in different orders in
distant nodes. Then how can the entire network agree on the first fact? To guarantee
integrity over a P2P network, you need a way to make everyone agree on the ordering of
facts. You need a consensus system.
Consensus algorithms for distributed systems are a very active research field. You may have
heard of Paxos or Raft algorithms. The blockchain implements another algorithm, the
proof-of-work consensus, using blocks.
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Proof-of-Work (POW) System
A proof-of-work (POW) is an economic measure to deter denial of service attacks and other
service abuses such as spam on a network by requiring some work from the service
requester, usually meaning processing time by a computer.
A key feature of these schemes is their asymmetry: the work must be moderately hard on
the requester side but easy to check for the service provider. This idea is also known as a
CPU cost function, client puzzle. It is distinct from a CAPTCHA, which is intended for a
human to solve quickly, rather than a computer.
One popular system—used in Hashcash—uses partial hash inversions to prove that work
was done, as a good-will token to send an e-mail. For instance the following header
represents about 252 hash computations to send a message to calvin@comics.net on
January 19, 2038:
X-Hashcash: 1:52:380119:calvin@comics.net:::9B760005E92F0DAE
It is verified with a single computation by checking that the SHA-1 hash of the stamp
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Back to Blockchain theory. Blocks
Blocks are a smart trick to order facts in a network of non-trusted peers. The idea is simple:
facts are grouped in blocks, and there is only a single chain of blocks, replicated in the entire
network. Each block references the previous one. So if fact A is in block 21, and fact B is in
block 22, then fact C is considered by the entire network to be posterior to fact A. Before
being added to a block, facts are pending, i.e. unconfirmed.
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The Theory. Mining
Some nodes in the chain create a new local block with pending facts. They compete to see if
their local block is going to become the next block in the chain for the entire network, by
rolling dice. If a node makes a double six, then it earns the ability to publish their local block,
and all facts in this block become confirmed. This block is sent to all other nodes in the
network. All nodes check that the block is correct, add it to their copy of the chain, and try
to build a new block with new pending facts.
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The Theory. Mining
But nodes don't just roll a couple dice. Blockchain challenges imply rolling a huge number of
dice. Finding the random key to validate a block is very unlikely, by design. This prevents
fraud, and makes the network safe (unless a malicious user owns more than half of the
nodes in the network). As a consequence, new blocks gets published to the chain at a fixed
time interval. In Bitcoin, blocks are published every 10 minutes on average.
In Bitcoin, the challenge involves a double SHA-256 hash of a string made of the pending
facts, the identifier of the previous block, and a random string. A node wins if their hash
contains at least n leading zeroes.
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The Theory. Money and Cryptocurrencies
Every second, each miner node in a blockchain tests thousands of random strings to try and
form a new block. So running a miner in the blockchain pumps a huge amount of computer
resources (storage and CPU). That's why you must pay to store facts in a blockchain.
Reading facts, on the other hand, is free: you just need to run your own node, and you'll
recuperate the entire history of facts issued by all the other nodes. So to summarize:
● Reading data is free
● Adding facts costs a small fee
● Mining a block brings in the money of all the fees of the facts included in the block
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The Theory. Money and Cryptocurrencies
We're not talking about real money here. In fact, each blockchain has its own (crypto-
)currency. It's called Bitcoin (BTC) in the Bitcoin network, Ether (ETH) on the Ethereum
network, etc. To make a payment in the Bitcoin network, you must pay a small fee in
Bitcoins - just like you would pay a fee to a bank. But then, where do the first coins come
from?
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The Theory. Money and Cryptocurrencies
Miners receive a gratification for keeping the network working and safe. Each time they
successfully mine a block, they receive a fixed amount of cryptocurrency. In Bitcoin this
gratification is 25 BTC per block, in Ethereum it's 5 ETH per block. That way, the blockchain
generates its own money.
Lastly, cryptocurrencies rapidly became convertible to real money. Their facial value is only
determined by offer and demand, so it's subject to speculation.
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The Theory. Contracts
So far we've mostly mentioned facts storage, but a blockchain can also execute programs.
Some blockchains allow each fact to contain a mini program. Such programs are replicated
together with the facts, and every node executes them when receiving the facts. In bitcoin,
this can be used to make a transaction conditional: Bob will receive 100 BTC from Alice if
and only if today is February 29th.
A contract is a promise that signing parties agree to make legally-enforceable. A smart
contract is the same, except with the word "technically-" instead of "legally-". This removes
the need for a judge, or any authority acknowledged by both parties.
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Conclusion
What it does A blockchain allows to securely share and/or process data between multiple
parties over a network on non-trusted peers. Data can be anything, but most interesting
uses concern information that currently require a trusted third-party to exchange.
Examples include money (requires a bank), a proof or property (requires a lawyer), a loan
certificate, etc. In essence, the blockchain removes the need for a trusted third party.
How it works From a technical point of view, the blockchain is an innovation relying on
three concepts: peer-to-peer networks, public-key cryptography, and distributed
consensus based on the resolution of a random mathematical challenge. None of there
concepts are new. It's their combination that allows a breakthrough in computing. If you
don't understand it all, don't worry: very few people know enough to be able to develop a
blockchain on their own (which is a problem). But not understanding the blockchain doesn't
prevent you from using it, just like you can build web apps without knowing about TCP slow
start and Certificate Authorities.
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Conclusion
What it compares to See the blockchain as a database replicated as many times as there are
nodes and (loosely) synchronized, or as a supercomputer formed by the combination of the
CPUs/GPUs of all its nodes. You can use this supercomputer to store and process data, just
like you would with a remote API. Except you don't need to own the backend, and you can
be sure the data is safe and processed properly by the network.