Why?

I am writing this guide, to get well acquainted with Blockchain, as well as a reference guide for my Android application. Everything written here is copyleft, so use it in any way you like.

Layout

• Cryptography Essentials

  • Hashing
  • Public-key cryptography
  • Merkle trees

• Blockchain

  • Introduction
  • Decentralised vs Distributed
  • Transactions(Regular,Coinbase yet to be explained)
  • Blocks
  • Nodes
  • Mining - Difficulty,Nonce, Mempool
  • UTXOs
  • Consensus algorithms(PoW,PoS)
  • Architecture(Blocks,Transaction,Blockchain)
  • Scripts
  • Wallet -WIF, Deterministic, Hardware, Brainwallet
  • Use cases
  • Hashcash
  • Myths
  • Weaknesses

• Ethereum

  • Introduction