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Introduction I made it my mission in 2022 to learn everything I could about blockchain and as the year ends, I feel like I accomplished my goal. Love it, hate it, or don’t want to know nothing about it, I think it’s important to push your opinions aside and understand how this technology works. Even with the current collapse of several large crypto companies in 2022, blockchain isn’t going to disappear.
Continue readingIntroduction A blockchain is an integrated solution of different computer science problems in the form of a single, append-only, publicly available, transparent, and cryptographically auditable database that runs in a distributed and decentralized environment.
I’ve heard many times that blockchain is a technology looking for a problem to solve. I disagree with that assessment because the tech and computer science behind blockchain has practical uses in everyday engineering problems. One use of this technology that comes to mind is a dependency management verification system.
Continue readingIntroduction In the first three posts, I explained there were four aspects of a blockchain that this series would explore with a backing implementation provided by the Ardan blockchain project.
Digital accounts with electronic signatures and verification Transaction distribution and synchronization between computers Redundant storage and consensus by different computers Detection of any fraud to past transactions The first post focused on how the Ardan blockchain provides support for digital accounts, signatures, and verification.
Continue readingIntroduction In the first two posts, I explained there were four aspects of a blockchain that this series would explore with a backing implementation provided by the Ardan blockchain project.
Digital accounts with electronic signatures and verification Transaction distribution and synchronization between computers Redundant storage and consensus by different computers Detection of any fraud to past transactions The first post focused on how the Ardan blockchain provides support for digital accounts, signatures, and verification.
Continue readingIntroduction In the first post, I explained there were four aspects of a blockchain that this series would explore with a backing implementation provided by the Ardan blockchain project.
Digital accounts with electronic signatures and verification Transaction distribution and synchronization between computers Redundant storage and consensus by different computers Detection of any fraud to past transactions The first post focused on how the Ardan blockchain provides support for digital accounts, signatures, and verification.
Continue readingIntroduction This is the first post in a series that will explore the semantics and implementation details of the Ardan blockchain project. The code is a reference implementation of a blockchain and not intended to mirror any specific blockchain in use today. Even though the code has been engineered with production level coding standards, I wouldn’t use this project for anything more than learning.
I am using the Ethereum project as a reference and have taken inspiration from that code.
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