Episode 52 - Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)
In this episode, we cover Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) and how it works.Miners or Validators are responsible for selecting and including the transactions in a block. They are free to choose any tra...
21 Nov 20225min
Episode 51 - Censorship Resistance
In this episode, we cover what makes Blockchains and decentralized systems censorship resistant.Centralized systems are owned or controlled by organizations. They could limit the usage of some actors ...
14 Nov 20224min
Episode 50 - Zero Knowledge Proofs
Blockchains are built for transparency and verifiability. Most of the data on a blockchain is publicly verifiable. For example, all transactions sent to bitcoin are public and anyone could query the b...
7 Nov 20224min
Episode 49 - Light Clients
In the episode 3 of the podcast, I covered different kind of blockchain nodes and one of them is light client. In this episode, I’ll cover light clients in a bit more detail. Light clients are special...
31 Okt 20224min
Episode 48 - Blockchain Bridges
There are different blockchains built to serve different kind of users and use-cases. Bitcoin is for peer to peer transfer of currency while Ethereum is a smart contracts platform. Flow is for NFTs wh...
24 Okt 20224min
Episode 47 - Lifecycle of a Block
A block is a collection of transactions and some metadata. Let’s take a look at how a block is produced. Let’s just assume that according to the algorithm we already have the node (validator or miner)...
17 Okt 20224min
Episode 46 - Rollups
Rollups are layer 2 blockchain scalability solutions where the execution of transactions is moved off the main blockchain. Basically, the layer 1 chain is used for keeping the ledger state and providi...
10 Okt 20224min
Episode 45 - Layer 1, Layer 2, and Scalability
Initially, there were only one kind of blockchain networks where ledger storage and execution of transactions both happened on-chain. These blockchains were not scalable because of the topics and reas...
2 Okt 20224min
