Not boring and dry just simple and quick. As everyone knows, you can just go GitHub, and look at the Bitcoin repository. Thus the Bitcoin core is the de facto rule book. This is a formal proposal for changes to Bitcoin. Essentially, since everything is public and people need to be in consensus, this is the way to formally propose changes to Bitcoin including the technical specification changes and rationale.
I bitgo fees swallows have spent the most time looking at the BIPs related to mnemonic code for generating deterministic bitgo fees swallows. This is because there is crossover between Ethereum and Bitcoin for how the deterministic keys are generated for each chain. I highly recommend people technical or nontechnical to read at least one BIP. They are clear, well formatted, and easy to read even if they are not that easy to understand.
Each BIP has a champion to evangelize for it. There was a repo for lips Litecoin Improvement Proposal but given that acronym perhaps they moved it elsewhere. There are five main lead developers on Bitcoin. One of them Gregory Maxwell has been discussed in earlier lectures who proposed coin tumbling strategies i.
This gives power to the individual users which is more than what you would get in a centralized currency. With a centralized currency users have the right to exit. However, if there is only a bitgo fees swallows bank, exiting the bank would be detrimental to your everyday life.
Life would become more difficult. With Bitcoin, users can fork the rules i. Thus the right to fork ensures that the community retains more power as opposed to the central deploying entity.
What exactly is a fork though? However, the lecturer goes more in depth of users behaviors. If the fork was mean to start an altcoin then the altcoin goes its separate way and branches coexist nicely.
Otherwise, forks could reflect a fight to the future. Thus when miners fork, it means there needs to be mass adoption of a new bitgo fees swallows of rules and that eventually takes over the entire network of Bitcoin nodes.
Now we segue to the stakeholders. There are several individuals in the Bitcoin. This seems obvious to me because they write the rule book. Almost everyone users their code and follows their rules. In addition, for some of the bitgo fees swallows details, they may be the only ones knowledgeable enough to make informed assessments about changes. However if they do something that only benefits them, they run into the case that people ie bitgo fees swallows and users just stop using this blockchain.
They perceive that they are at a disadvantage and because Bitcoin is not the only chain, they can move their business elsewhere. History has to be consistent with the future. They determine whether Bitcoin has value and with hard-forks they bitgo fees swallows can decide which branch prevails by keeping or buying bitgo fees swallows successful currency. However again, they are relying on the developers to build code and miners to mine their transactions.
While the populus has power, the lecturer also claims that they generate primary demand for Bitcoin and drive the long-term price. He then claims that investors have to guess where the merchants and customers will go. Then you can think of the payment services who handle the transactions.
However, all have some power. Bitgo fees swallows success, there needs to be some relationship across these different slivers for the blockchain to exist and be stable.
The last group which should be a category of their own is the Bitcoin Foundation. They evangelize Bitcoin to governments. There are controversies among the foundation which is interesting. Each of the members clearly have their own agendas. Roger Ver bitgo fees swallows to start his own nation this bitgo fees swallows.
Additionally, whenever each of the foundation members speak about price movement, they have the ability to shift sentiment positive or negative. I spouted out a lot of facts. Not much of this is relevant to the every day user. I still recommend reading a BIP.
I also recommend considering who has power when looking at Bitcoin are any other token. However, before talking about policy and regulations, the lecturer began with the idea of consensus in Bitcoin. Note, this is a very short section that has some important concepts. HashGraph is an alternative consensus protocol that is much faster and therefore scalable than Bitcoin. Also next lecture will likely be more meaty. Consensus, by definition, just means general agreement.
I gave the answer right in the header. The three types of consensus discussed related to the block rules, blockchain history, and the value of Bitcoins. Consensus about rules means there needs to be bitgo fees swallows on the technology and infrastructure. People need to know what makes a transaction valid and what makes a block valid. It also gives structure to how P2P nodes behave and the bitgo fees swallows and formats.
Without consensus in this layer, none of the nodes would be able to communicate with each other and they each may validate different blocks. Thus there would be no consistent way for the system to move forward without this.
One real world thing I think about is hard forks. During a hard fork, there is a division with the nodes and certain nodes become incompatible with others. Thus all the nodes need to move to one standard eventually to persist. Consensus of history means one needs to agree on the contents of the blockchain.
Furthermore, this means which transactions have occurred, which coins exist, and who owns them. Bitcoin can be bitgo fees swallows to being a store of value and thus everyone needs to agree on this distributed ledger.
While it seems so simple ie one big shared database, that has to be true for people to remove trust from central parties and apply trust to these systems. Lastly, there is consensus of value. Coins have value and currencies need this. However, likely inpeople needed to believe. History and value are tied because to claim ownership is bitgo fees swallows to having bitgo fees swallows on the history. While HashGraph may have a bitgo fees swallows consensus protocol, do they still need people to believe in them?
This lecture was all about Tor and anonymous communication and then briefly talks about the Silk Road. Instead of just looking at the Silk Road, I bitgo fees swallows my view. Irrespective, the lecture gave a good overview on how it can be used.
You have a bunch of senders and receives. Bitgo fees swallows a message to get to a recipient, it has to pass through a communication network where multiple parties will propagate the message forward to the recipient. Similar to how a Mix worked, a sender wants to send a message to a particular recipient but they do bitgo fees swallows want to be linked. There are adversaries who are considered the threat model. Any edge or node can be considered an attacker.
The lecturer claims that there must exist at least one honest sender, communication network path, and recipient though for the message to get sent. Now how does Tor allow the message to pass through safely? Tor does this by picking a chain of intermediaries to find the route.
The route can be random but it is fixed in the Tor protocol to be 3. The sender will pre-select a path of 3 x intermediaries for how the message will pass. The security guarantee is thus, as long as one of the nodes is not compromised then the sender is safe.
People will look at timing to see when the nodes may communicate with each other. One key challenge is how do you hide routing information? To send bitgo fees swallows message, the destination IP address has to be present. However, if we think any of the routers are bitgo fees swallows, we do not want the router being able to see the destination.
Arvind mentions that the answer is encryption, specifically layered encryption. Layered Encryption resembles an onion which is where the term onion routing comes from. Alice and the first router share a symmetric key. Alice and the second router share another key. Alice and the third router also share a key. The symmetric keys are ephemeral just to be used when needed. The only long term keys are the keys held by the routers where each would have a public key and such.
The last leg from the third router to Bob is unencrypted.
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