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- BitcoinHow does Bitcoin work? This is a question that often causes confusion. Here’s a quick explanation! The basics for a new user As a new user, you can get started with Bitcoin without understanding the technical details. Once you have installed a Bitcoin wallet on your computer or mobile phone, it will generate your first Bitcoin address and you can create more whenever you need one. You can disclose your addresses to your friends so that they can pay you or vice versa. In fact, this is pretty similar to how email works, except that Bitcoin addresses should only be used once. Bitcoin Balances – block chain The block chain is a shared public ledger on which the entire Bitcoin network relies. All confirmed transactions are included in the block chain. This way, Bitcoin wallets can calculate their spendable balance and new transactions can be verified to be spending bitcoins that are actually owned by the spender. The integrity and the chronological order of the block chain are enforced with cryptography. Transactions – private keys A transaction is a transfer of value between Bitcoin wallets that gets included in the block chain. Bitcoin wallets keep a secret piece of data…
- EthereumEthereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference. These apps run on a custom built blockchain, an enormously powerful shared global infrastructure that can move value around and represent the ownership of property. This enables developers to create markets, store registries of debts or promises, move funds in accordance with instructions given long in the past (like a will or a futures contract) and many other things that have not been invented yet, all without a middle man or counterparty risk. The project was bootstrapped via an ether pre-sale during August 2014 by fans all around the world. It is developed by the Ethereum Foundation, a Swiss nonprofit, with contributions from great minds across the globe.
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GDPR: Are you sure you want to use BLOCKCHAIN for STORAGE?

The EU has finally come out with an approved framework for how corporations should handle user data. Although this is quite good news for people generally, I can also see it as a big threat Read more…

By Lawlez, 3 months ago March 28, 2018

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Why owning a copy of the Bitcoin Blockchain could be illegal

If someone buries Illegal content in a blockchain, will all users possesing this very chain also break the law? Without you even knowing you could be part of spreading child pornography online.

By Lawlez, 3 months ago March 20, 2018