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Blockchain & Crypto 101: Guide for Beginners | Binance Academy
Saved by Marcel Mairhofer
The Bitcoin network and other distributed ledgers all represent a collectively maintained public infrastructure and are the backbone of the next generation Internet, what the crypto community refers to as the Web3.
Blockchain technology changes that by making it possible to transfer a digital asset of value from one person to another entirely digitally and without any intermediary.
Cryptography science is used in multiple places to provide security for a blockchain network, and it rests on three basic concepts: hashing, keys, and digital signatures. A “hash” is a unique fingerprint that helps to verify that a certain piece of information has not been altered, without the need to actually see it. Keys are used in at least a co
... See moreA series that explores and explains the world of crypto and blockchain in under three minutes and in plain English.
Topics include Bitcoin, mining, Metamask, stable coins, NFTs, web3, blockchains, staking, DeFi, and big players in the space such as Gary Vee.
From "What is the web3 movement about?": Web1 refers to the early, read-only websites.
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