Where do you read about blockchain?

Posted by wittenator on Monday September 03, 2018 @04:28PM
from the self-post dept.

Getting into the field of Blockchain and distributed consensus feels like an intimidating tasks due to the sheer volume of literature published daily. Do you have any fav. sources to stay up to date with the overall development, if you are not up for reading papers ?

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Re:Where do you read about blockchain? by hazz99 on Monday September 03, 2018 @09:02PM (#17905868)

I don't know much in terms of blockchain _research_, but reading the whitepapers of established cryptocurrencies will give you a great overview & keywords to research further.

- Bitcoin[0] (the classic!)

- Ethereum[1] (contracts is a really innovative concept)

- Iota[2] (uses a 'tangle', rather than a blockchain)

- Nano[3] (similar to Iota, but faster? Everyone gets their own personal blockchain -> asynchronous updates! Gets faster with more users)

[0]https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

[1]https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper

[2]http://iotatoken.com/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf

[3]https://nano.org/en/whitepaper

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Re:Where do you read about blockchain? by 1ba9115454 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @10:11AM (#17909150)

The guys over at multi chain have a great blog.

https://www.multichain.com/blog/