Blockchain: Lego for the Curious
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Explains fundamental properties and features of blockchain technology by breaking it into layered abstractions and describing what happens at each lower level. Covers how those layers fit together to make blockchain-based projects work, aiming to give a high-level functional understanding rather than implementation details.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction to blockchain
- 2:13Traditional banking problems
- 4:01Abstractions and transactions
- 6:15Transaction pool and consensus
- 8:23Hashing and block linking
- 10:54Blockchain indexing
- 13:26Exchanges and orders
- 15:57Blockchain as technology
- 17:02Miners and Proof of Work
- 18:28Transaction log growth problem
- 19:33Q&A part 1
- 22:47Anonymity and transparency
- 24:55Choosing blockchain for project
- 26:24Building blocks of technology
- 28:58What is cryptocurrency
- 30:45Hello World blockchain project
- 32:1051% attack problem
- 35:23Blockchain vs centralization
- 36:48Modularity and architecture
- 39:17Scalability and speed
- 41:47Q&A part 2
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