How can customers, suppliers, and competitors operating on a shared private blockchain network arrive at consensus about transactions? Why would they trust each other without a trusted…
Due to several challenges in the Bitcoin blockchain protocol related to the limited capabilities of its scripting language, second generation blockchain ledgers such as Ethereum implement their own version of a…
$135.816.003.617 USD — that is the current market cap of Bitcoin (21.11.2017). In Wikipedia’s list of country GDPs, Bitcoin would rank today as number 57 with a higher market cap than the GDP of Kazakhstan…
Who is governing the second largest blockchain with a market cap of roughly $29 Billion USD? How are decisions made in Ethereum? How does decision making differ from Bitcoin? As these questions are highly relevant for protocol improvements, we will go…
How can companies that cannot share data on a public permissionless blockchain leverage blockchain advantages? The answer is: Hyperledger Fabric. In the following, I will dive into the Hyperledger blockchain project and explain how…
How did blockchain technology come about? How does it solve the issue of double-spending? And how do the main types of blockchain platforms differ?
To answer these questions, the following paragraphs will give a brief overview of the different…
Who can see me in the Bitcoin network? How well can I as a developer build Dapps on Bitcoin? In this blog post of the series on the Bitcoin blockchain, I will talk about anonymity and scripting in the Bitcoin network.
With about 11.000 mining nodes Bitcoin is the largest blockchain network out there. However, is it really…
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