A Beginner's Guide to Blockchain Technology

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A Beginner's Guide to Blockchain Technology

Bitcoin is a digital currency that is being used increasingly all over the world since its inception in 2009. In the years since, many other assets and forms of blockchain technology have been developed. Find out more about bitcoin, ethereum, blockchains, and enterprise distributed ledger technology and how they are being used and evolving with our straightforward guides.

GUIDE INDEX

• What is Bitcoin?

  It's a decentralized digital currency

• Why Use Bitcoin?

  It's fast, cheap to use, and secure

• How Can I Buy Bitcoins?

  From an exchange or an individual

• How to Buy Bitcoin in the UK

  Buying bitcoin in the UK

• How to Store Your Bitcoins

  Use a digital or paper wallet

• What Can You Buy with Bitcoin?

  Spend your bitcoins

• How to Sell Bitcoin

  A guide on how to sell your bitcoins

• How to Accept Bitcoin Payments for Your Store

  Learn about bitcoin POS systems

• How do Bitcoin Transactions Work?

  Bitcoin addresses and private keys

• Is Bitcoin Legal?

  The current regulation around bitcoin

• Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

  The founder of bitcoin

• How Bitcoin Mining Works

  By confirming transactions

• How to Set Up a Bitcoin Miner

  Generate bitcoins yourself

• What are Bitcoin Mining Pools?

  What are pools how and how to join them?

• How Does Cloud Mining Bitcoin Work?

  Alternative bitcoin mining solutions

• How to Calculate Mining Profitability

  Can you make a ROI?

• How to Make a Paper Bitcoin Wallet

  Creating an unhackable bitcoin wallet

• What is the Difference Between Litecoin and Bitcoin?

  It's the silver to bitcoin's gold

• How to Buy Litecoin

  How to buy the bitcoin alternative litecoin

• How to Mine Litecoin and other Altcoins

  How to generate your own altcoins

• Understanding Bitcoin Price Charts

  A primer on bitcoin price charts

• Bitcoin E-Commerce Services for Merchants

  How to accept bitcoin at your business

• What is Blockchain Technology?

  A system of distributed data and logic

• How Does Blockchain Technology Work?

  Cryptographic keys, distributed networks and network servicing protocols

• What Can a Blockchain Do?

  Identity, recordkeeping, smart contracts and more

• What is a Distributed Ledger?

  A dynamic, independently maintained database

• What is the Difference Between Public and Permissioned Blockchains?

  Can anyone read or write to the ledger?

• What is the Difference Between a Blockchain and a Database?

  It begins with architectural and administrative decisions

• What Are the Applications and Use Cases of Blockchains?

  Tokenization, auditing, governance, settlement and more

• How Could Blockchain Technology Change Finance?

  Cross-border payments, new asset classes, regulatory compliance and more

• What are Blockchain's Issues and Limitations?

  Complexity, size, costs, speed, security, politics and more

• Why Use a Blockchain?

  To manage and secure digital relationships as part of a system of record

• What is Ethereum?

  A blockchain application platform and 'world computer'

• What is Ether?

  The 'fuel' of the ethereum network

• How to Use Ethereum

  Wallets, trading and ‘dapps’

• Who Created Ethereum?

  Vitalik Buterin

• How Ethereum Mining Works

  'Proof of Work' and 'Proof of Stake'

• How to Mine Ethereum

  GPUs, mining software and pools

• How Ethereum Works

  'Turing-complete' programming, 'state' and the 'EVM'

• What is a Decentralized Application?

  A distributed 'smart contract' system

• What is a DAO?

  A 'decentralized autonomous organization'

• How Do Ethereum Smart Contracts Work?

  Code, transaction fees and 'gas'

• How Will Ethereum Scale?

  ‘Sharding’ and ‘off-chain’ transactions