Curriculum Category: The Technology Behind Crypto

Learn the technology underlying cryptocurrencies to better understand how it works and its economic value.

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Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Technology Beginner

What is Bitcoin Mining, and Is It Still Profitable?

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Reading Time: 13 minutes Many people try their luck at mining for Bitcoin. Bitcoin mining is the process of verifying and adding blocks containing Bitcoin transactions to the blockchain by solving a complex computational math problem. Unfortunately, making significant earnings…
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Cryptocurrency Technology Beginner

What is Proof-of-stake (PoS)

Reading Time: 6 minutes The majority of cryptocurrencies today use the blockchain network as a technological foundation to enable transactions. Then, the transaction is verified using a system called a consensus mechanism. The two most popular consensus mechanisms are proof-of-work…
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Cryptocurrency Technology Beginner

What is Automated Market Makers (AMM)?

Automated Market Makers adalah sebuah mekanisme yang memanfaatkan algoritma komputer untuk memungkinkan otomatisasi pertukaran aset digital.
Reading Time: 7 minutes In the early days of Bitcoin and the crypto world, buying and selling crypto were done using conventional order book mechanisms like stocks and other assets. In this system, all buying and selling require a third…
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Cryptocurrency Technology Intermediate

Get to Know the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), How It Works and Its Implementation

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Reading Time: 6 minutesOne of the breakthroughs in technology that has developed since the invention of cryptocurrency is DAO or Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.DAO in principle is an organization that lives on the internet, and is owned and managed collectively by…
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Cryptocurrency Technology Beginner

What is Web 3.0?

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Reading Time: 10 minutesThe swift growth of crypto and blockchain technology has driven the development of Web3, which is often referred to as “the future of the internet.†Although the idea of Web 3.0 has been known for a while,…
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Investing Cryptocurrency Technology

What Happened To Ethereum After The Merge?

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Reading Time: 9 minutes Ethereum successfully completed the network transition from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS) on September 15, 2022. The crypto community has been anticipating this event for a while. The Ethereum community believes that…
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Getting Started Beginner ETH

What is Decentralized Finance (DeFi)?

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Reading Time: 5 minutesAmid the growing popularity of cryptocurrency adoption over the past few years, one of the most attention-grabbing inventions in the crypto world is Decentralized Finance, or DeFi. DeFi is a blockchain-based financial application ecosystem that can operate…
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Cryptocurrency Technology Intermediate

What is Layer 2 Crypto?

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Reading Time: 11 minutesEthereum is one of the most popular blockchains in the crypto industry. It was also the “OG”blockchain to implement Smart Contracts that gave birth to the NFT and Defi sectors. As its user increases, the weaknesses of…
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Cryptocurrency Technology Beginner

Advantages and Disadvantages of Decentralization in Blockchain

Reading Time: 3 minutes The concept of decentralization is gaining popularity with the emergence of cryptocurrencies, which have captured attention for their potential to transform financial transactions. Where once all control was held by centralized authorities, now everyone can have…