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Mastering Bitcoin

Andreas M. Antonopoulos

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Distributing the ledgers Adding new transaction to the ledgers Deciding which ledgers represents the truth

Daniel Drescher • Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps

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Satoshi Nakamoto bitcoin.org

Send USDC from a wallet with your ENS address to the entity’s ENS address, and receive digital assets back into your wallet. These digital assets are mirror assets logged in an on-chain cap table we call the mirrortable. The primary cap table is maintained in an off-chain system like Carta for compliance purposes. And the entity periodically update... See more

Balaji S. Srinivasan • The Mirrortable

The blockchain is also a distributed, public, time-stamped asset ledger that keeps track of every transaction ever processed on its network, allowing a user’s computer to verify the validity of each transaction such that there can never be any double-counting.

William Mougayar • The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology

Blockchain is an immutable, digital ledger that facilitates the process of recording transactions and tracking assets in a network; it is updated and shared across many computers in a network.

Jay Drain Jr • Web3 Starter Pack

millions and millions of people own U.S. dollars, which means precisely that some bank has a list and there is an entry for them on that list. It’s probably not in Excel, but same basic idea: The bank has a list of dollars in its accounts, the list is not kept via any sort of consensus mechanism or blockchain or whatever; the bank just keeps the li... See more

Matt Levine • Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

An individual ledger is used for maintaining information about ownership, which is equivalent to one blockchain-data-structure storing ownership-related data. The individual ledgers are stored on the computers (nodes) of a peer-to-peer system. The blockchain-algorithm is responsible for letting the individual nodes collectively arrive at one consis

Daniel Drescher • Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps

Transaction data provide the mandatory information necessary to execute a transfer of ownership as intended. Executing a transaction means making the transfer of ownership happen as described by the transaction data. Executing a transaction means adding the transaction data to a ledger. By adding transaction data to a ledger, the transaction become