Before You Start Learning Blockchain
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A beginner-oriented introduction to blockchain covering its history from 1970s cryptography through DigiCash, Haber and Stornetta's timestamping paper, Merkle trees, Hashcash, b-money, Bit Gold, and Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper. It then explains Web3 concepts like dApps, DeFi, coins vs tokens, NFTs, and CEX vs DEX, followed by the blockchain protocol stack (hardware, data, network, consensus, application layers) and the Layer 0-3 scaling hierarchy, ending with an explanation of public-key cryptography and the hash-sign-verify transaction pipeline. Positioned as part one of a series, with parts two and three promised on Bitcoin fundamentals and Ethereum smart contracts.
