Blockchain Guides - Page 11

What’s the Difference between Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)?

By Adedamola Bada January 27th, 2020

Despite blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) have been one of the most common buzzwords thrown about in events and seed-raises to bolster investments, not so many know the difference between these two techs.

How to Scale Ethereum: Sharding Explained

By Adedamola Bada September 28th, 2019

While scalability remains one of the main issues of blockchain, sharding is viewed as one of the most promising methods to address it. This guide will help you to learn more about it.

What Is Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR)?

By Azeez Mustapha September 24th, 2019

Hedera Hashgraph is claimed to go beyond the majority of traditional blockchains. If you want to learn what Hedera Hashgraph can offer you, this guide is for you.

What Is Lightning Network and How Does It Work?

By Adedamola Bada September 24th, 2019

Though the Lightning network is still under development it is already expected to bring great changes. The guide will tell you what the network represents itself and what this tech can offer to the crypto world.

What Is the Telegram’s TON Blockchain?

By Azeez Mustapha September 20th, 2019

Telegram Open Network is expected to become a major game-changer for social messaging. But what do we know about it right now? This guide is for those who want to find it out.

What Is Decentralized Finance (DeFi)?

By Adedamola Bada September 18th, 2019

There are a lot of talks that today the traditional centralized finance system can’t satisfy all the currently existing demands. But are there any other options? In this guide, we will tell you about DeFi, its decentralized counterpart.

What’s the Difference Between Coins, Tokens and Shares?

By Andy Watson August 24th, 2019

Using the example of tokens, coins and shares, with this piece, we’ll show you how the concept of crypto blurs the borders between different types of assets.

What Are Smart Contracts?

By Andy Watson August 23rd, 2019

As you can hear about smart contracts practically everywhere today, this guide will help you to better understand their nature and their role in transforming many processes.

Gone with Consensus: Evolution of Algorithms [Complete Guide]

By Andy Watson February 8th, 2019

In this complete guide, Vladimir Malakchi, CMO of 482.solutions, figures out which consensus algorithms are presented in the industry, considers their features, and also touches on their shortcomings dispelling several myths.

What Is Blockchain Technology?

By Andy Watson March 23rd, 2018

The blockchain technology can simply be explained as a decentralized open ledger system of adding, verifying and then recording transactions between peers in a transparent, efficient and irreversible manner.

What Is Interledger Protocol?

By Andy Watson January 17th, 2016

The Interledger protocol (ITL) is a protocol for payments across payment systems. The protocol was introduced by Ripple in October 2015.

What Is Open Ledger?

By Siarhei Karotki December 18th, 2015

A group of the major fintech industry players are working on a new version of the blockchain technology as part of the Open Ledger Project.

What Is SHA-256?

By Andy Watson August 28th, 2014

SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm) – is a set of cryptographic algorithms – single-aimed hash functions including SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512.

What Is Scrypt in Cryptography?

By Andy Watson March 25th, 2014

Scrypt is an adaptive cryptographic function of key generation based on the password. It was invented by Colin Percival for the online service for protected storage of back up copies of Unix like operating systems in 2008.