You must have heard about fork that belongs to the cutlery. However, do you know that The Blockchains fork too? That is yet another aspect of Blockchain technology that helps you appreciate the democracy associated with it. In a typical software deployment, there is a central authority that is running the entire show. Therefore, they […]
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Are Blockchain and Cryptocurrency the Same?
Back in mid 90s when internet was catching up, many adopters used to associate internet with a single use case. For example, some people used internet for online reading, so they thought of internet as source of information. Others used internet for emails and communication. This went on for a while until some companies started […]
The Covid Blogpost: How Blockchain Could’ve Helped
Yup. After surviving two gory waves, third wave finally took me down. Just like every citizen of the country should, I had already got jabbed twice. Despite that, this wave hit me out of the blue. For those of you who know, I am not a partying kind of a person. So, I did not […]
Why Should I Care About Cryptocurrency?
Well, it’s not particularly hard, but its definitely overwhelming. That’s the thing with blockchain technology. It popped up right at the brink of information explosion. Whenever a newer technology was born in the past, it took a significant time to reach the masses. However, with cryptocurrencies, this phase of expansion was rather short lived. I […]
Top 5 Bitcoin Facts
You know what? If you have a clarity on Bitcoin and it’s underlying technology a.k.a Blockchain, you have covered more than 60% of the crypto market in terms of market capitalization. Although there are 10,000+ cryptocurrencies listed on coinmarketcap, in reality no one knows how many of them are out there. But no matter what, […]
How Does Bitcoin Work?
The short answer would be magic. But since I am not one of your Instagram 30s vloggers, it’s time to dig in deeper. In the past I have covered posts that gave us a glimpse of blockchain technology and what is Bitcoin? I tried to simplify things to an extent that you could explain it […]
How to explain Bitcoin to a 7 Year Old Kid?
It is story time. Once again our protagonist Sharry is back in action, on a popular demand. And this time around, his father has a very fair chance of redeeming himself. If you are absolutely lost on what’s going on, I would urge you to go ahead and read my previous post here. While Sharry […]
How to Explain Blockchain to a 7 year old kid?
Well, here we are. Another post on blockchain fundamentals, put forth in a non jargony, fun way. This is the beauty of it. I could go ahead and scare you with words like protocol, decentralization, BFT etc. but that will defeat the entire purpose of spreading awareness around blockchain. So this article will help you […]
My Cryptocurrency Journey: How it all began?
We talk a lot about cryptocurrency on this blog. More so, lately. We’ll come to the ‘why‘ aspect of this change shortly in this blog. Before that, I wanted to share my motivation behind writing this post. So, yesterday, I attended a 3 hour workshop on cryptocurrencies and blockchain. The workshop was conducted by Mr. […]
What is Distributed Trust in Blockchain?: Analogy
Just like digital marketing and SEO, the world of blockchain loves it’s jargons. These jargons essentially have a pretty straight forward dictionary meaning. However, there’s a lot more to them when you dive in deeper. Today, we discuss one such jargon and try to understand it through a very interesting analogy. The term of the […]