Have you ever wondered how Bitcoin was introduced? From last few years, Bitcoin is a buzzing word in the market, with a bigger number of people trading in it. Now, Bitcoin has become a worldwide phenomenon, due to which it has a large number of followers. To fulfil that demand, we need more coins but as it is not associated with any type of central government so can’t be generated like a note; instead,...

While looking at transaction details of Bitcoin, you see a few other transactions than the one you made. For example on blockchain.info, you might have came across different type of Bitcoin transactions. Lets have look at them one by one. Before we take a look closely on each type, it's worth noting that Bitcoin transfer from one account to another follow Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO) model. I will considering all the transactions form Block...

When talking about ethereum mining, most of the individuals think that they need supercomputers having large multitudes of computational power to pull it off. Well, it is not completely erroneous; unlike a couple of years back, mining cryptocurrency has become quite easier. This has become possible because of the rapid advancement of both cryptocurrency, and the blockchain technologies have experienced over the time. Those days are gone when you needed a mainframe with the processing...

Scalability is one issue that has been troubling blockchain developers and is one of the biggest challenges before it can reach the masses. Below is the daily transaction chart showing transactions since October' 15. image source: etherscan.io The key here is that enough number of nodes must verify the transaction to confirm it as legitimate and to make sure that security isn't compromised, but few enough so as to allow the system to process...

Cryptocurrencies have changed the ways of transactions whether they be business or personal. Below is a graph which shows the number of ethereum transactions per month over years. Image source: Etherscan.io It is impressive that cryptocurrencies such as Ether have grown so much over years. But the problem is that cryptocurrencies were not designed for such a widespread use. And as the virtual currencies have grown, many problems have surfaced. The most important and...

Ether is the fundamental cryptocurrency for operation on Ethereum blockchain. It is used to pay GAS , a unit of computation used in transactions and other state transitions....

What is Ethereum light node? Ethereum light node protocol is big step towards bringing the Ethereum client to small devices with limited hardware resources. Details of light client protocol can be found at GitHub. Go-Ethereum or Geth 1.8.1 has an experimental implementation of light protocol. Lets have a look in detail. Installing Geth First you need to install geth. You can follow the instruction here about geth installation. $geth version Geth Version: 1....

A blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of records called blocks which are secured from tampering and revision using cryptography....

With Constantinople fork coming closer, listing all EIPs to be included is a priority for the Ethereum Core Developers. In latest Core Devs meeting, the discussion was more focused on streamlining the process of merging of EIPs and about the EIPs proposed to be included in the fork....

As 2018 unfolds the true definition of what a Dapp is will become clearer and easier to describe, but up to this point such a thing doesn’t exist....

With the second largest market cap in the cryptocurrency world, Ethereum has drawn a lot of attention from investors and crypto enthusiasts alike. This relatively new cryptocurrency not only presents a significant change to the status quo, it also allows for the quick development and deployment of new applications. Ethereum essentially enables dozens of new and extremely innovative cryptocurrencies to exist. While Ethereum’s utility is obvious to programmers and the tech world at large,...

*New EIP will be written by to replace EIP 86 *EIP 96 needs a little more collaboration *EIP 145 will be going in the hardfork. *EIP 169 / 170 will be discussed more in the next meeting...

Ethereum updates - Q4 Round Up, scalability R&D subsidy programs, website redesigning, ETH recorded new all time high $914...

Before we get deeper into the concept of Ethereum Blockchain, it is important to understand how Public Key, Private Key and Address are generated. To make this easier for beginners, I am trying to explain the technical concept with an example. Ethereum key generation is based on elliptical curve ecp256k1. Eliptical curve (EC) is intense mathematics, and there are a lot of great articles on internet covering deep details of elliptical curve. There are standard...

After Bitcoin came into the world markets, we also got another cryptocurrency called Litecoin which is abbreviated as LTC or XLT. In this article I'll be referring to Litecoin as LTC. What is Litecoin? Well, Litecoin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and an open source project created in October 2011. It has been inspired by Bitcoin in most aspects but was introduced with some technical differences such as segregated witness and lightning network (currently BTC too...