#3 What are Layer-1 and Layer-2 protocols?
Before you start reading this article, do check out my previous articles to get a basic understanding of what a blockchain is and how it works. What is Bitcoin? What is Ethereum? These articles are here to help crypto beginners to get a basic understanding of cryptocurrency. It is not written for experts with advanced knowledge and it definitely will not make you an expert as well. If you have just started digging into the rabbit hole of cryptocurrency, chances are that you will have heard of...
#3 What are Layer-1 and Layer-2 protocols?
Before you start reading this article, do check out my previous articles to get a basic understanding of what a blockchain is and how it works. What is Bitcoin? What is Ethereum? These articles are here to help crypto beginners to get a basic understanding of cryptocurrency. It is not written for experts with advanced knowledge and it definitely will not make you an expert as well. If you have just started digging into the rabbit hole of cryptocurrency, chances are that you will have heard of...
Everything I Learned About NFT Crypto Art in the Last 365 Days
NFT stands for Non-Fungible Tokens. It’s a unit of data stored on a blockchain, which is a digital ledger technology. NFTs certify unique digital assets that are not interchangeable for the smaller sums of their total worth. Unlike Bitcoin that you can break into Satoshis (or a hundred dollar bill that you can exchange for five 20 dollar bills), NFT always stays in its original form.
Everything I Learned About NFT Crypto Art in the Last 365 Days
NFT stands for Non-Fungible Tokens. It’s a unit of data stored on a blockchain, which is a digital ledger technology. NFTs certify unique digital assets that are not interchangeable for the smaller sums of their total worth. Unlike Bitcoin that you can break into Satoshis (or a hundred dollar bill that you can exchange for five 20 dollar bills), NFT always stays in its original form.
Palantir embraces Bitcoin, Peter Thiel invests in $10b crypto-exchange and Coinbase on #1 in Appstore
What do Tesla, Time magazine and WeWork have in common? All companies have, in the last three months, announced either a significant investment in Bitcoin. The latest of these companies is Palantir, an American software company. On the 11th of May the company announced that it now accepts bitcoin as a form of payment and is also looking to adding it to its balance sheet. David Glazer, chief financial officer: “We’re thinking about it and we’re even discussing this early, taking a look at our ...
Palantir embraces Bitcoin, Peter Thiel invests in $10b crypto-exchange and Coinbase on #1 in Appstore
What do Tesla, Time magazine and WeWork have in common? All companies have, in the last three months, announced either a significant investment in Bitcoin. The latest of these companies is Palantir, an American software company. On the 11th of May the company announced that it now accepts bitcoin as a form of payment and is also looking to adding it to its balance sheet. David Glazer, chief financial officer: “We’re thinking about it and we’re even discussing this early, taking a look at our ...
Eth 2.0 — Ethereum 2.0 What’s it all about?
If you’ve been following ETH you would have undoubtedly heard one of, if not all of these sentiments shared. Unfortunately for ETH none of them is positive. However, is that the full story? Ironically, ETH is struggling, because it has become so successful. There are currently tens of thousands of DApps (decentralised apps) all competing for computational resources. Billions of dollars of stablecoin are being sent on the network every single day! Every single one of those transactions is comp...
Eth 2.0 — Ethereum 2.0 What’s it all about?
If you’ve been following ETH you would have undoubtedly heard one of, if not all of these sentiments shared. Unfortunately for ETH none of them is positive. However, is that the full story? Ironically, ETH is struggling, because it has become so successful. There are currently tens of thousands of DApps (decentralised apps) all competing for computational resources. Billions of dollars of stablecoin are being sent on the network every single day! Every single one of those transactions is comp...
Kerberos: Replay Attack
This lesson discusses the replay attack specific to the Kerberos protocol. Get the complete Kerberos Course here. Another attack Kerberos is prone to is known as the replay attack. An attacker monitors the network and makes a copy of the messages between the KDC and the client as they are being exchanged. The copied message can then be replayed back to KDC by the attacker at a later time. For instance, say Laila, after receiving the TGT from the Authentication Server, requests for a service t...
Kerberos: Replay Attack
This lesson discusses the replay attack specific to the Kerberos protocol. Get the complete Kerberos Course here. Another attack Kerberos is prone to is known as the replay attack. An attacker monitors the network and makes a copy of the messages between the KDC and the client as they are being exchanged. The copied message can then be replayed back to KDC by the attacker at a later time. For instance, say Laila, after receiving the TGT from the Authentication Server, requests for a service t...
