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I recommend the ethereum whitepiper. It has a clear description of bitcoin and then goes on to describe other applications of the blockchain:…

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Observed mentions: 2014-02-21 21:26:14 UTC to 2021-03-13 00:30:51 UTC.

02040602014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 6 submissions, 15 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 1 submissions, 11 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 3 submissions, 10 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 56 mentions; 3 submissions, 53 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 26 mentions; 1 submissions, 25 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC21615
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12111
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13310
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC56353
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC26125
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1019
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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gibybo·Jul 11, 2019
The original 9 page paper by Satoshi is probably the best place to start for a technical introduction: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf The Bitcoin wiki has a lot more information, although it can be hard to navigate: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page For some more modernish innovations in Blockchain tech in general, I would also recommend the Ethereum white paper: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper. Ethereum re-imagines the Bitcoin protocol with a turing complete virtual machine that runs on the chain itself.
In The Bitcoin Blockchain Visualized in 3D
collincusce·Jan 3, 2019
2/3rds is required for a full 51%-style attack in PoS. https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQs#wh... There's a lot of misinformation regarding PoS. Vlad Zamfir has spoken a lot on cartel attacks and how they're mitigated, but the biggest, and I mean bigger than biggest, argument against all of these attacks is that it's always detectable by honest nodes shy of 2/3rds attack and it defaces the value of the coin itself to attack at that volume.
In Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
leppr·Jan 3, 2019
The great thing about all this smart-contract stuff is that we're not limited to simplistic abstractions anymore. Rather than a linear approach, I think what's going to succeed is a "tree" of networks, with weaker ones committing hashes at regular checkpoints to stronger, more expensive chains (sort of a sparse Merkle tree[1]). This is already the approach taken by scaling solutions such as Thunderella[2] or sharding proposals[3]. This allows a more organic hierarchy between secure and fast networks. e.g.: Imagine a fast but slightly centralized Twitter chain (only 21 validators let's say), committing hashes of every day of tweets to a decentralized public blockchain. I'm not 100% sure whether that tweet posted by my friend 5 minutes ago is legitimate, but I don't need to be 100% certain to answer them and carry on the casual conservation
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. I can verify though, that the Trump tweet bordering on declaration of war posted 24h ago is indeed real, because the hash of the whole day of tweets was committed to a strong blockchain, and the author of the tweet didn't post any subsequent objection to it. I can proceed to hide in my bunker, confident in my choice. [1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#Merkle_Tre... [2]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/913.pdf [3]: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQs#what-mig...
In Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
bouncycastle·Dec 29, 2018
My understanding that a full sync in Bitcoin means something different than a full sync on Ethereum. Bitcoin's database is modeled on UTXO (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unspent_transaction_output) therefore all clients need to validate all transactions from genesis to calculate final balances. Meanwhile, Ethereum is account based and state is global, and to determine the balances you only need to check the merkle proof, no need to store or re-validate each and every transaction, just the final result. Source: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Design-Rationale#accou... quote "The benefits of accounts are:Large space savings" In Ethereum, the closet to a Bitcoin full node would be an 'full archive' node, those are keeping all the transactions, down to the stack traces and events, without pruning. These are usually run by block explor
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ers, but you certainly don't need to store that much detail if you just want to interact with a dapps.
In Why I’m so “against” Ethereum
maiavictor·Oct 20, 2018
That's a blatant lie, running a full node is not required to "be decentralized", for the same reason you don't need to run a full node in Bitcoin. Light nodes have the same guarantees about the integrity and irreversibility that full nodes do. Perhaps you should try learning about them - see https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Light-client-protocol - before stating things you don't understand? The fact that the worst thing a "fudster" like you has to say against Ethereum is that it had a hard fork to revert a millionaire hack caused by a bug in early stages of the project; whereas something not too different also happened to Bitcoin - see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident - when it had the same age; says it all. I don't often comment here, but I simply can't understand why an human being would come to the internet and h
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atefully attack things it doesn't like with straight made-up facts. I mean, I know this is so common, I just don't get why. This kind of thing makes me sad about humanity as a whole. Why can't we be nice to each other?
In Ethernaut: wargame to learn about smart contract security

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