Oh! Crypto- you are no longer concealed Paired with currency, you are not what it seems I was never in it for the ride or the pride Didn’t ever have an iota to hide So, is there a use for you I […]

I always thought that I was a bit late to the uptake of Bitcoins when I made my first purchase in 2015, having read about it for a long time as a technology enthusiast. However, I never imagined that the real frenzy […]

I will admit that my interest in the book was piqued by the recent demonetization exercise. For most of us, digital money extends to any non-cash means of payment. Thus, in India, digital wallets like PayTM, Mobikwik and Freecharge are synonymous with […]

I have been using Bitcoin for quite some time now, but didn’t bother to go deeper in to its mechanics until now. Having done so, I find cryptocurrency to be an absolutely fascinating subject, having gone through it at a high level. […]

As I mentioned previously (in the other post), cryptography is at the heart of a cryptocurrency. Hash functions and public-key cryptography play a key role here.       a.  Hash function and digest: A hash function outputs a fixed sized data called […]