The concept of blockchain as a standalone technology started gaining popularity in 2015. Prior to that, it was just known as a data structure underlying Bitcoin technology. In Satoshi Nakamoto’s white ...

Anyone who's ever tried to build distributed applications (dApps) on the (Ethereum) blockchain would concur: Although blockchains are conceptually quite close to databases, querying databases feels ...

At the heart of Bitcoin lies the blockchain, a distributed ledger that records all transactions made on the network. This blockchain is composed of a series of blocks, each containing a set of ...