Blockchain Intro in 1 Slide
What is Blockchain and how does it function? How do wallets, nodes and miners manage collectively a transaction journal that is unique, truthful, unchangeable and supported by the majority of the participants?
ARTICLES FROM THE BLOCKCHAIN ACADEMY®
On How Blockchain Helps the World Health Organisation to Combat CoViD-19
The current CoViD-19 pandemic and the global measures for containment imposes huge challenges. One challenge consists of efficient and reliable information gathering. How is it that Blockchain can help?
Sars-Cov-2 and the Nature of Money
The global CoViD-19 crisis imposes huge stress on individuals, families and also on businesses. For the latter, if bankruptcies occur, does that mean there was no value in the business models?
Need to Grasp Blockchain? Start with an Operational Overview!
This Blockchain operational overview allows to acquire a logical understanding of the interactions between the different roles accomplished in a Blockchain protocol.
DLT Is Not Blockchain! Blockchain Is Not DLT!
DLT, distributed ledger technology, is the term adopted by corporations that need a version of Blockchain that doesn’t include the decentralised consensus mechanism. As the latter is the essence of Blockchain, DLT’s are no Blockchains.
Bitcoin Mining Simplified
Bitcoin mining is nothing else than solving an extremely difficult equation. The solution to the equation LOCKS the inputs in the equation which is the numerical representation of the content of the Blockchain database.
Blockchain Applications: Think for Yourself!
Blockchain applications exist on the intersection of 1) assets, 2) owners and 3) Blockchain characteristics
Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Banknotes and Chopped-up Databases
A banknote and a cryptocurrency are similar as they are both a piece of a database.
A Freestyle Interpretation of Money
Money is nothing else than a benchmark number enabling the measurement, standardisation and allocation of economic value.
Blockchain and Triple Entry Bookkeeping, How Exciting! How Frightening!
The Blockchain consensus system requires that transactions are audited before inserting them in the database. A bookkeeping that has Blockchain transactions as input becomes a pre-audited triple entry bookkeeping!