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#101: Decentralization

What is self-sovereign identity (SSI)?
ForkLog 13 03.08.2021

What is self-sovereign identity (SSI)?

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is a set of personal attributes that an individual can control, share with any private or public entity, and revoke access to at any time at their discretion.
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What is Robonomics, and why would a drone need a crypto wallet?
ForkLog 30 12.05.2021

What is Robonomics, and why would a drone need a crypto wallet?

Robonomics is an open-source IoT platform that supports Web 3.0 technologies: IPFS, Ethereum and Polkadot.
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What is DFINITY?
ForkLog 98 11.05.2021

What is DFINITY?

DFINITY is a project aimed at building a decentralised, cloud-like blockchain infrastructure for a new kind of internet.
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What is decentralised finance (DeFi)?
ForkLog 49 29.07.2020

What is decentralised finance (DeFi)?

What is decentralised finance (DeFi)? Decentralised finance (DeFi) is the idea of an open, trustless ecosystem of financial applications and services built on public blockchain networks. The term DeFi refers to the market for decentralised applications (dapps) in financial services and transactions, including lending, trading and borrowing. Such peer-to-peer systems allow anyone to access traditional […]
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What is cryptography? Who are the cypherpunks?
ForkLog 21 08.04.2020

What is cryptography? Who are the cypherpunks?

1 What is cryptography? Cryptography is the science of methods that ensure data authentication, integrity and confidentiality. 2 When did cryptography emerge and how did it evolve? As a technique for protecting text, it arose alongside writing—methods of secret writing were known in ancient India, Mesopotamia and Egypt. In the first period of development (roughly from the third millennium BC to the ninth century) monoalphabetic ciphers predominated […].
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What is crypto‑anarchism?
ForkLog 22 03.04.2020

What is crypto‑anarchism?

1 What is crypto‑anarchism? Crypto‑anarchism is a strain of anarchism that uses cryptographically secured anonymisation technologies, digital pseudonyms and digital money to bypass state controls—surveillance, censorship and taxation. 2 How did crypto‑anarchism emerge? In the 1940s Western intelligence agencies explored involving recipients in the encoding process. In 1973 British mathematician Clifford Cocks presented a model for public‑key cryptography, later realised in 1977 as RSA by three MIT professors.
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How to launch your own cryptocurrency (token) and which blockchain to choose?
ForkLog 5 31.03.2020

How to launch your own cryptocurrency (token) and which blockchain to choose?

Is it possible to launch your own cryptocurrency? Yes, via two routes: build a new blockchain or issue a token on an existing one. This guide focuses on the latter, with step‑by‑step primers for Ethereum, Waves, EOS, the XRP Ledger and TRON. Note: the article is outdated and awaiting an update.
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What is a 51% attack?
ForkLog 18 23.01.2020

What is a 51% attack?

1 What is a 51% attack? A 51% attack is a vulnerability of PoW blockchains that lets an attacker control transaction confirmation and block production. 2 What does controlling 51% of a network’s power enable? Attackers can hinder block discovery (selfish mining), perform double spends against service providers and exchanges, fork the main chain, block confirmations, and collect all rewards and fees during the attack.
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What is blockchain?
ForkLog 19 06.11.2015

What is blockchain?

1 What is blockchain? Warning! The article was published in 2015 and is due for an update. Blockchain (from the English block chain, 'chain of blocks') is a distributed database accessible to anyone. It is also called the 'distributed ledger technology', since there is no central authority or regulator that could govern the blockchain at its own discretion. […]
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