I have started learning Esperanto and have found some books I will use to read to help learning here: http://i-espero.info/files/elibroj/ Some of them sound pretty heavy (e.g. new testament) so I want to put them in an order of difficulty before I read them I reckon length, and number of unique words will be the…
Author: cryptobloggins
Blockchain
Download bitcoin core and download the blockchain. You end up with a bunch of files blk0000.dat files. These files contain the blocks, each file contains up to 128MiB (mebibyte is 2^20 bytes) of data. Lets read the first one: Block 0 (Genesis block) Block 1 f9 be b4 d9 1d 01 00 00 01 00…
What is a bitcoin address exactly?
This is an example of a bitcoin address: 14NWDXkQwcGN1Pd9fboL8npVynD5SfyJAE CONCEPT:- Elliptic Curveshttps://www.certicom.com/content/certicom/en/ecc-tutorial.html Each address corresponds to a point on the elliptic curve secp256k1 (y^3=x^2+7 mod p) where prime p = 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007908834671663 The point for the above address as a decimal point on a graph: (91519190036866233587583752863966343541024156557754641198598352460350806215674, 18110675123485594228049867696927871008716109164646265340106239137304742587157) to check this is on the curve we can…
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I’ll use this blog to post interesting things I learn, because it helps in learning to explain what you learn (“to teach is to learn twice”) mainly about cryptography related things probably, or books I read if you read any of the pages please comment or send me a message 🙂