consensus

Decentralization sounds simple until you realise every node acts on its own. In a blockchain each node holds its own copy of the ledger and processes data independently. Nodes see transactions at different times, some go offline, some behave incorrectly and some may try to cheat. Without a way to agree the network would split into a thousand truths. Consensus is what keeps all those independent nodes and all those independent ledgers marching in the same direction....

If you’re still asking ‘Why do I even need to learn Blockchain security?’ No worries. I wrote this blog to answer exactly that. Give it a read, then come back and we’ll dive into Blockchain 101 together. Now that you are here, let’s start by understanding what is Blockchain? But wait, a bit of warning, there is way too much text in the entire blog - I tried putting some AI generated images (which make sense for the blog), but they also were not able to do much, so all the best!...