BlockShots: Blockchain Simplified

When we talk about blockchain scalability — which has been the theme for some of the current episodes — we must understand how the block gas limit plays an important role in the scalability discussion...

26 Sep 20224min

Since its beginning, the Ethereum network has been using the Proof-of-Work consensus mechanism. As we know, PoW consumes a lot of energy. Now the Ethereum network is moving to Proof-of-Stake consensus...

19 Sep 20224min

When it comes to blockchains, we use the terms performance, scalability, transactions per second (TPS) many times interchangeably. But these are all very different things. I recently read an article o...

12 Sep 20223min

In the last episode I spoke about blockchain scalability and how sharding is one of the ways to achieve that. In this episode, let’s do a double click on blockchain execution sharding.Sharding, in gen...

5 Sep 20225min

Some of you must have seen on the internet that how Bitcoin and Ethereum and much slower than Visa and other centralized financial systems. The reason is blockchain scalability trilemma. Bitcoin and E...

22 Aug 20224min

Blockchains are decentralized networks where all the data is stored and verified by all nodes. To make blockchains usable for real world use cases, they should process large amounts of data. But when ...

18 Aug 20224min

Blockchains are basically peer to peer networks of nodes. The chain progresses when majority of the nodes or peers agree on the state of the blockchain and the validity of the next block. What happens...

8 Aug 20224min

The user or DApp composes a transaction with information like input parameters, cryptographic signature, and some metadata about the blockchain network and a serialized data object is created out of i...

2 Aug 20224min