know-more-blockchain

To know more about blockchain related technologies, a resource collection.

In this readme file I will collect blockchain related insights and links to help me know more about blockchain technology.

Introduction

Blockchain is becoming a revolutionary technology as many claims. There are several basic blocks to build a well functioning blockchain system.

What is blockchain?

Blockchain is a recording, a storage, a large wide database that keeps recording what's happening in the network.

Why does blockchain matter?

It provides trust and credit on happened events between participants. Thus every events happened at the physical world could be mapped to the digital world in a trusted way which will greatly improve the efficiency of business activities in the physical world, also it is possible to create new economic forms.

How does it work?

... consensus mechanism, cryptography tools, network model, virtual machine and smart contract, data structure and storage, synchronization mechanism, account model, application and deployment.

A brief history?

CFT and BFT

hash function, shaX...
symmetric cryptography, AES...
asymmetric cryptography, EC...
others. homomorphic encryption, oblivious transfer, zero knowledge proof, ring signature, multiparty computation...

permissioned and permissionless