“Ultimate” blockchain digest: useful materials on Habré and other sources on the topic
Yesterday we presented an open framework for developing Exonum blockchains. It will allow companies and government organizations to implement secure blockchain solutions.
Today we decided to prepare a thematic compilation for those who would like to understand the device of the blockchain technology, but did not forget the more “advanced” users.
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Today we decided to prepare a thematic compilation for those who would like to understand the device of the blockchain technology, but did not forget the more “advanced” users.
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For beginners
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BitFury has been participating in the development of the blockchain since 2011. Here we talk about the history of this technology, give a simple explanation of the principles of work and introduce you to the main components. This material should be used as a starting point and recommended for reading to anyone who would like to understand what a blockchain is.
Simple words about the features of exclusive blockchains, their tasks, areas of application and capabilities. In this article we tried to give as many examples as possible and provide useful links to the original sources. In addition, here you will find a subsection dedicated to frameworks for exclusive blockchains.
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Ratix Habrazhitel prepared a translation of “ The Blockchain Explained to Web Developers, Part 1: The Theory, ” written by Francois Zaninotto. This is another attempt to understand the topic with the help of an independent translation of the original source. In this article you will find the basic definition of blockchain, a short story about cryptocurrencies, mining, blocks and contracts.
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The largest international organizations are beginning to actively introduce into their activities the technology of building a chain of transaction blocks. Here you can see the expert opinion on which specialists are needed right now, who is interested in them and what knowledge you will need to work with the blockchain.
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This is a collection of 43 incidents that adversely affected those or other cryptocurrencies. A cursory analysis of the main causes of the incident says that the main problems are connected with the use of social engineering methods, interception of cloud data storage accounts and basic vulnerabilities at the application level.
For lovers
mark_ablov prepared a translation of an entertaining note by Ken Shirriff (Ken Shirriff), which he wrote back in 2014. This material will be interesting to those who would like to move from words to practice and understand the essence of technology. In addition to the time to solve the problem, Ken assumes his own energy consumption, although he excluded the cost of paper and pens from the general justification of the economic efficiency of the process.
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Here we understand how to eliminate the biggest drawback of the bitcoin blockchain. In this article, you will learn about the solutions that the world community is proposing, and which of them will become part of the bitcoin network. For those who have already managed to dive into the subject a bit: it will be a question of Segregated Witness and Lightning Network.
Step-by-step analysis of what can be done at the metadata level. From bitcoin addresses to the Transaction ID and the possible parameters of metadata, their transfer and the necessary resources for this.
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Here we present a slightly more detailed analysis of what the Lightning Network is. Plus, we talk about how you can set up a bi-directional payment channel, a little about networking, trilateral exchange and routing in the Lightning Network.
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The distributed and decentralized nature of the blockchain architecture sets the community task of distributed consensus. In this article, we begin with the structure of blockchain networks, talking about consensus and "proof of work." In addition, we present alternatives for PoW. We recommend this material to “advanced users”.
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We understand what lies at the heart of the blockchain. Here you can find out what gives you protection from collisions, get acquainted with the "avalanche effect" and find "live" examples that clearly illustrate the concepts under consideration. Alice and Bob, active users of bitcoin, helped us in this.
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The largest banking structures and other organizations are actively exploring the possibility of building their own private blockchains. We decided to deal with the relevant terminology and the characteristic features of public and private blockchains.
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Alexander Strelov pokupo wrote a series of review materials and tried to briefly highlight the most interesting projects from the blockchain field. His main task was to start talking about a revolutionary technology that opens up new possibilities for building fundamentally different systems and software products.
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Microsoft Corporate Blog tells about the projects developed on the basis of blockchain technology. In this article you will find a brief analysis of the problems that the new technology solves, and a practical tutorial on how to accomplish the task of deploying, including the distributed version, the blockchain network. The continuation of the cycle of articles is here
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Lauri Hartikka (Lauri Hartikka) will help to deal with the implementation of the simplest blockchain on a handwritten example, which he called NaiveChain. The project itself is written in Javascript, and in the material Lauri tells about its main components and architecture. In addition for those interested: a repository on GitHub.
Cases
Acronis talks in its corporate blog about how a new technology can be applied in data security. Here, the technical side of the problem is briefly reviewed and legal issues that affect the application of such solutions in Russia are raised.
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In one of their materials from the Bitfury Group blog at Habrahabr, we decided to deal with what smart contracts are. Here we briefly touched upon examples of platforms for smart contracts (Rootstock) and talked about the future and practical application of smart contracts.
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ITMO University talks about one of the point experiments of its community. Scope of application - control drone. Platform - Ethereum.
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The government of Dubai plans to start managing the infrastructure of the city on the basis of the blockchain next year. The created platform will be open for other regions. In its corporate blog at Habré, IBM (project partner) stresses that the possibilities of a new technology must and will be used not only in the field of financial services.
Bitfury Group will help the government of Georgia to register land ownership rights using blockchain technology. We talked about this case in our English-language blog on Medium.
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Another case of the use of the blockchain outside the financial sector is the cooperation of Bitfury Group and the government of Ukraine. The first stage of the program is the integration of technology into the e-government platform. Initial areas for implementation: registries, social sector, health and energy. As the pilot project is completed, the program will cover all areas of government competence, including information security.
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Vladimir> Menaskop prepared a translation of the material, which offers to look not only at the technological, but also at the management component of blockchain projects. The original is on the Gartner blog in English.
Trent McConaughey (Trent McConaghy) shared with his audience a vision of how blockchain can influence the development of AI. Trent looked at this issue from the point of view of the “blue ocean strategy” and analyzed opportunities for working with big data.
Medium's Digital Chains blog presents an interesting English-language material to the audience on the practical use of the blockchain. Here you can find 30 use-cases with examples of existing projects: from the service for the delivery of goods and to the methods of managing the medical history of patients.
Expert Magazine became interested in the blockchain's capabilities and provided its own analysis of problems and solutions in such areas as property rights registration, contracting, guaranteeing freedom of information and a number of others. It turned out great analytical material that we recommend to read.
Mike Goldin, developer of blockchain solutions, has recorded a thematic podcast on the possibilities of the new technology and the problems that have to be solved. Here you can find the text transcript of the issue.
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Another English-language selection with a huge number of examples of already running projects (an average of 3-4 examples for each use case). This material is suitable for those who are just beginning to understand the topic.
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CB Insights, one of the most reputable analytical companies, publishes its selection of applications of the blockchain. This material complements previous new examples of implemented projects.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/332438/
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