So you want to know about Bitcoin…

--Originally published at Computer and Information Security

Hey reader! I’m glad you keep digging at my posts, that’s nice of you. This time I will talk about Bitcoin.

From the official page of Bitcoin we can find that this type of coin is:

Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin is open-source; its design is public, nobody owns or controls Bitcoin and everyone can take part. Through many of its unique properties, Bitcoin allows exciting uses that could not be covered by any previous payment system.

As you can see, the P2P technology that they talk about is something called blockchain, which you can read about in my previous post. In the big picture, Bitcoin is nothing than just a program that uses hash tables and is about transactions made in the web through a certain amount of time, and the one that solves the math problem first is the one that can charge a small amount of the bitcoin value.

That’s it, I tryied to explain to you in simple words what this is, but as I know that you are more graphical than just words, I will leave a video of how to create your own Cryptocurrency in JavaScript:

Part 1

Part 2

References:

https://youtu.be/zVqczFZr124

https://youtu.be/HneatE69814


Blockchain – As you saw it on TV! Actually in the web with Bitcoin

--Originally published at Computer and Information Security

Sup, reader! I feel like a little rusty talking to you since I haven’t uploaded in a while and that’s something I want to change today.

Today’s topic is about blockchain, you will be asking yourself, wt… is blockchain, well, this is nothing that how Bitcoin works, I mean, this is not a post about Bitcoins if that’s what you think you will learn here, for that I recommend you to look it up in my later blog post, where I talk about some cryptocurrency. But, for now I will explain as how I understood from a video that a person made online. I will tell you how I interpret it, but of course I will leave the video down somewhere here, for you to understand the basic concepts about how something like Bitcoins work.

First we have an ecosystem of computers connected in the whole world, through the internet, imagine like a bunch of computers connected with a lan, something, like a mesh. For example this image:

Resultado de imagen para mesh network

Here you can see a lot of devices connected, this is known as a descentralized and distrubuted, distributed because, each computer or device has a copy of each transaction and doesn’t depend on a third party, like how banks works, where you need a banc account which is managed by a banker and in order to reflect when you make a transaction, it needs to be aproved by this banker. So, in blockchain, what is trying to do, is to remove those third party entities, so that, each one of us can have a very transparent and out of corruption system. And, descentralized because, the transcations are reflected in each device connected to this system.

The basic component of the blockchain is  a layer, which is something like you see in the

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