What Is a Private and Public Key and Why Do You Need Both?
Cryptography is one of the key technologies used to ensure cryptocurrency networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum remain secure.
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Blockchain for Digital Identity in the B2B World
Digital identity is a key issue in the B2B world, and blockchain-based solutions are gaining traction – both for people and for goods and materials.
Blockchain: Full Control of Your Digital Identity (Finally)
Blockchain’s decentralized nature ensures that your digital identity is secure, and it has the potential to exponentially reduce the risk of identity theft.
What Is Lightning Network? And How Does It Work?
The Lightning Network offers an easy way for users to make “off-chain” bitcoin payments with low fees, near instant settlement, high transaction throughput, and increased privacy.
The First Blockchain Living Lab Opened in Singapore
Singapore’s first Blockchain Living Lab, initiated by SUSS, SmartMesh Foundation, and MeshBox Foundation, was officially unveiled on January 15, 2020.
Is Proof of Work the Ultimate Solution?
Decentralised systems have been in the ‘limelight’ only recently, specifically blockchain. In the daily lives of people the understanding that something can be managed in a decentralised manner is a topic that has just begun.
What Is Asymmetric Cryptography?
Uses public and private keys to encrypt and decrypt data, the keys are simply large numbers that have been paired together but are not identical (asymmetric). One key in the pair can be shared with everyone; it is called the public key. The other key in the pair is kept secret; it is called the …
What Is a Consensus Algorithm?
How the blockchain consensus algorithms work, what their benefits and limitations are, and what types of consensus algorithms are available.
Debate: Is Proof of Work the Ultimate Solution?
The inventor of the first steam engine created something new yet, for today’s standards, inefficient and imperfect. The evolution of the steam engine has lead to very efficient machinery that we have today. Using this analogy,
What is a Block?
A block is a collection of transactions that have happened during a certain amount of time that is added to the blockchain.