Episode 12 - Public & Private Blockchains
In this episode, we understand types of blockchain networks depending on who can read the state and who can participate in block production (updating the state).In a permission-less blockchain, anyone...
29 Jun 20204min
Episode 11 - What are Decentralised Apps (DApps)?
Blockchains, just by themselves, are a collection of nodes sharing data and agreeing on its state. To make blockchains useful for the end-users, applications are built on top of them. Simply put, appl...
25 Jun 20204min
Episode 10 - What are Smart Contracts?
Smart Contracts allow users to extend the business logic of blockchains. Just the transfer of bitcoin and ether might only help with a subset of financial use cases and cryptocurrencies. For blockchai...
22 Jun 20204min
Episode 9 - What is Blockchain Wallet?
In contrast to the physical wallet in which we keep currency notes, a digital or blockchain wallet does not hold digital currency. Instead, the wallet holds the cryptographic keys so that they could b...
18 Jun 20204min
Episode 8 - Accounts and Keys
Accounts are a way of representing users on the blockchain. Just like we have accounts in banks, generally represented by account numbers, we have accounts in blockchains too. In a blockchain, account...
15 Jun 20204min
Episode 7 - Block Production and Mining
Block Production is the process of proposing and appending new blocks to the blockchain so that the state of the chain could be updated. The state update happens when the transactions included in the ...
11 Jun 20204min
Episode 6 - What is Signing?
Signing is the process of associating user’s identity with information that is originating from the user.In this episode, we discuss digital and cryptographic signing and how it is used in blockchains...
8 Jun 20205min
Episode 5 - What is Hashing?
Hashing is the process of deriving fixed-length strings from arbitrary-length data. It is generally used to represent data in a more compact and consistent format. In this episode we discuss the proce...
4 Jun 20204min
