What is a Blockchain, Actually?

Table Of Content

• Introduction
• Part 1: What is a blockchain, actually?
  • Part 1 Prelude
  • What Is This All About?
  • Blockchain-based Authorities
  • Execution, Ordering and History
  • Blocks, Transactions, And Blockchain Systems
  • Blockchain Networks
  • Blockchains Are Overrated
  • Evolution of Blockchain State Machines
  • Properties Of Blockchain Systems
  • The Bigger Picture
  • Summaries:
    • This Book In 1 Sentence
    • This Book In 1 Paragraph
    • This Book In 1 Page
• Part 2: How to scale a blockchain network
  • Introduction - Why Scaling Matters
  • Scaling Up - Hyper Optimized Super Chains
  • Scaling Out - Pure Multi-chain
  • Scaling Out - Shared Economic Security
  • Scaling Out - Optimistic (Non-)Execution
  • Scaling Out - SNARKs
• Part 3: Polkadot
  • Polkadot
  • JAM
• Part 4: Appendices
  • Topics that were mentioned in the above chapters, deserve a long description, but don’t fit anywhere above.
  • Proof of Work and Proof of Stake
  • Bridges and Cross Chain Messaging
  • Moon Math - ZKP, FHE and MPC
  • TEE
  • 🏗️ Opinionated List of Products and Why (work in progress)