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How Bitcoin transaction fees work

How much traditional financial transactions cost Bitcoin’s on-chain transaction fees Bitcoin transactions for low fees at Lightning speed How to minimise bitcoin transaction fees Bitcoin was created as an upgrade to the legacy financial system, giving more people access to banking, and making transactions faster and cheaper. Sending bitcoin isn’t, however, free, and fees can… Continue reading How Bitcoin transaction fees work

Five tips for crypto investing

Always do your own research (DYOR) Don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose Discover what Survivorship Bias means Take a slow & steady DCA approach If you’re looking to invest in crypto you might be tempted to follow colourful influencers on Youtube, TikTok or Twitter, promising massive overnight gains. Sadly, crypto, and life in… Continue reading Five tips for crypto investing

What’s wrong with leveraged crypto trading?

If you’re interested in the dynamics of crypto markets you’ll need to understand how leverage works. Leveraged crypto trading is a technique that enables you to make trades up to 100 times bigger than your capital would normally allow, amplifying both the potential gains and losses. This type of high stakes trading should be reserved… Continue reading What’s wrong with leveraged crypto trading?

What are the opportunities to build within Ethereum?

The genius of Vitalik Buterin was recognising that for a trustless cryptocurrency ecosystem to grow it needed a common language and a common set of economic standards. By providing this Ethereum does all the heavy lifting for supporting creators of digital applications, you just have to come up with a problem that will benefit from… Continue reading What are the opportunities to build within Ethereum?

5. Smart Contracts, dApps & Gas

Smart Contracts are written in a programming language specific to Ethereum, called Solidity, which for anyone with a programming background (especially Javascript) shouldn’t present a huge challenge to learn. Smart Contracts are stored within the EVM, with their latest state reflected in the most recent block in the Ethereum blockchain. A few lines of code… Continue reading 5. Smart Contracts, dApps & Gas

Ethereum’s Architecture

Overview of Ethereum The EVM – Ethereum Virtual Machine The Ethereum blockchain & consensus method ETH & its Tokenomics Smart Contracts, Gas & dApps Nodes  Clients & Networks Accounts & Transactions 1. Overview of Ethereum Ethereum is a distributed computing network that rents out its processing power through something called the Ethereum Virtual Machine (often… Continue reading Ethereum’s Architecture

What is Ethereum’s architecture?

What you’ll learn: What Ethereum does An overview of its architecture An outline of the core Ethereum components Some of things you can build on Ethereum What is Ethereum? Ethereum is a blockchain-based system where anyone can build and securely deploy any digital service without going through a formal, centralised approval process – such as… Continue reading What is Ethereum’s architecture?