BlockChain-1 (1) PPTXL
BlockChain-1 (1) PPTXL
Ledger
Digital Currency= The most successful among lot of efforts: Bitcoin- Replace cash with numbers and codes. Advantages- Fast , International, Easy
accounting , Weighs nothing , Cheap. Problems to be solved
Problems of Digital Currency= Perfect Copy -Just like downloading attachment from email, How to distinguish counterfeits, Ownership Problem.
Double Spending-Networks are noisy and transmission across
networks is far from instantaneous: delay, A hacker can capitalize, Fraudster Detection Problem.
The Long Road to Bitcoin= Centralized Banking: not robust
Satoshi determined to find the centralized part of banks
– The ledger
– “What if I could turn a bank inside out? Instead of one central party controlling the ledger, what if every user were recruited to maintain a constantly updated
copy?”
The strength of the digital was perfect copies, so copy the ledger, everywhere, instantly.
– Any ledgers with even one common not agreeing with the masses would be discarded, leaving fraudsters powerless
Replace cash with Ledger!
The decentralized ledger (Blockchain)= Decentralization: get rid of the Third Party
Satoshi paired two main technologies-Proof of Work: to solve the double spending problem. Elliptic Curves: to solve unique access to the ledger
Nothing was newer than 2001
1. 2001: SHA-256 finalized
2. 1999-present: Byzantine fault tolerance
3. 1999-present: P2P networks
4. 1998: Wei Dai, B-money
5. 1998: Nick Szabo, Bit Gold
6. 1997: HashCash
7. 1992-1993: Proof-of-work for spam
8. 1991: cryptographic timestamp
9. 1980: public key crypto algorithm
Decentralization
• Replace cash with Ledger
Block chain Structure Source: https://www.edureka.co/blog/blockchain-tutorial/ What is Blockchain
Technology= Bitcoin stores
all its transactions onto a
public database called as
Blockchain
Highlights
What does a block look like?
4 Key Concepts of Blockchain