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Blockchain Cryptography

How Blockchain uses Cryptography

Blockchains make use of two types of cryptographic algorithms, asymmetric-key algorithms, and hash functions. Hash functions are used to provide the functionality of a single view of blockchain.

In this post we explore the fundamentals of Cryptography in blockchain

Bitcoin the future of money

Book Review: Bitcoin The future of money

Dominic Frisby tells the amazing story of Bitcoin. He provides a theory to solving the mystery surrounding the identity of Bitcoin’s secretive creator. He shows how Bitcoin is going to change the world. And, perhaps most of all, he does something nobody else has hitherto been able to do: he explains in layman’s language how the thing works.

Daylight Robbery

Book Review: Daylight Robbery

Dominic Frisby traces the origins of taxation, from its roots in the ancient world, through to today. He explores the role of tax in the formation of our global religions, the part tax played in wars and revolutions throughout the ages, why, at one stage, we paid tax for daylight or for growing a beard. Ranging from the despotic to the absurd, the tax laws of the past reveal so much about how we got to where we are today and what we can do to build a system fit for the future.

What is Blockchain

Blockchain is a shared ledger, allowing thousands of connected computers or servers to maintain a single, secured and immutable ledger enabling the execution of user transactions without involving any third party intermediaries.

Going down the crypto rabbit hole

For investors new to the world of crypto, the scene in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in which Alice follows the rabbit down a rabbit hole and into Wonderland is a common analogy. Learning the technological concepts behind crypto can feel like stumbling into an upside-down world of make believe

The bitcoin standard

Book review: The Bitcoin Standard

This book is about monetary value and history of Bitcoin. The author is a professor of economics. The book mentions how the Blockchain technology works, but it is more detailed on the importance of Bitcoin in terms of economy and finance.