How The Blockchain Works
It is oftenly said that the whole point of using a blockchain is to let people, that is, people who don't trust one another to share valuable data in a secure and tamperproof way. Blockchain consists of three important concepts: blocks, nodes and miners. Blocks Every chain consists of several blocks and each block got three basic elements: - The data in the block. A 32-bit number called a nonce. It is randomly generated each time a block is created, which then generates a block header hash. The hash is a 256-bit number wedded to the nonce. Usually starts with a huge number of zeroes (that is, be extremely small). When the first block of a chain is created, a nonce generates the cryptographic hash. The data in the block is considered signed and forever glued to the nonce and hash unless it is mined. Miners Miners create new blocks on the network through the Mining process. In a blockchain network, every block has its own unique nonce and...