Series

Blockchain -Introduction to fundamentals

In this series, we embark together on a journey together to learn the basic underlying technology behind the Cryptocurrencies and the hype. We will also try to implement them in Python. Let's Go.

Articles in this series

Byzantine Fault Tolerance (In a Blockchain)

Dec 27, 20213 min read

Welcome Again! Today, we are going to learn about a core fundamental that is essential to building any decentralised system not just blockchain. Let's...

Byzantine Fault Tolerance (In a Blockchain)

Mining In a Blockchain (Part- 2 The Cryptographic Puzzle)

Dec 22, 20213 min read

In the last very short post here, we saw how a special value is used to vary the hash of the block. You may also recall that this value is called the...

Mining In a Blockchain (Part- 2 The Cryptographic Puzzle)

Mining In A Blockchain (Part 1- The Nonce)

Dec 16, 20212 min read

Let's continue in our quest to dig up the internals of a blockchain. In this post, we shall explore one of the fundamentals that incentivizes people...

Mining In A Blockchain (Part 1- The Nonce)

Distributed Peer-To-Peer Network (The Blockchain)

Dec 14, 20213 min read

Now, that we know about how the Blockchain works on an individual node, let's discuss how a network of nodes functions. On a very basic level, the...

Distributed Peer-To-Peer Network (The Blockchain)

What is an Immutable Ledger? (Blockchain)

Dec 12, 20213 min read

Introduction What happens on the blockchain, stays on the blockchain.-Someone Blockchain can also be called an immutable ledger. This is because it...

What is an Immutable Ledger? (Blockchain)

Hashing (and its use in a blockchain)

Dec 12, 20213 min read

Introduction In my last post about blockchain, I mentioned how hashes are used to link and secure a blockchain. But the question itself is how does...

Hashing (and its use in a blockchain)