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What is the purpose of nonce in the process of proof-of-work?
How does Hashcash system prevent email spamming?
In a blockchain, what is used to resolve disagreements or chain forks?
What is the purpose of payload in a block?
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How do miners decide which chain to work on when multiple chains exist?
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What role does Proof-of-work play in ensuring trust among miners?
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What happens in a tie situation when multiple chains have equal work done?
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What is the main motivation for miners to perform computational work in blockchain?
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What do miners modify to achieve the desired hash in proof-of-work?
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How does blockchain validate new blocks using headers?
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What is the purpose of the nonce in the process of proof-of-work?
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How does the blockchain resolve disagreements or chain forks?
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What motivates miners to perform computational work in blockchain?
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What is included in a blockchain to enable checking the validity of a new block using headers?
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Which element serves as a counter and is usually initialized at zero in hash cash?
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In blockchain, what happens when there is a tie situation where multiple chains have equal work done?
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What impacts a miner's decision on which chain to work on when multiple chains exist?
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How does Hashcash system prevent email spamming?
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What is the role of payload in a block?
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How do miners achieve the desired hash in proof-of-work?
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What is the purpose of the nonce in hash cash?
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How does the blockchain handle chain forks when multiple chains have equal work done?
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What prevents email spamming through the Hashcash system?
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What is the role of payload in a block within a blockchain?
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How do miners select which chain to work on in blockchain when multiple chains exist?
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What motivates miners to perform computational work in blockchain?
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In a blockchain, what enables checking the validity of a new block using headers?
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Study Notes
Bitcoin Mining and Blockchain
- Miners are motivated by self-interest to earn rewards and transaction fees by successfully adding a new block to the blockchain.
- Miners verify transactions within a block to ensure they are valid, then spread the newly created block to the rest of the network.
- Each node verifies the new block before starting to mine.
- Miners are rewarded with newly created bitcoins for successfully mining a new block (initially 12BTC, then 6.25BTC, halving every 210,000 blocks).
Bitcoin Block Structure
- Bitcoin uses a transaction-based ledger, where the sender signs the transaction to prove ownership of the funds being transferred.
- A transaction consists of an output (first) and input (then).
- Input is a reference to an output from a previous transaction.
- Multiple inputs are often listed in a transaction, and all new transaction's input values are added up.
- Previous tx is a hash of a previous transaction.
- Index is the specific output in the referenced transaction (0 or 1).
- ScriptSig is the first half of a script, verifying the provided public key and checking the signature against the public key.
Transaction Types
- Pay-to-script-hash: enhances flexibility and security of Bitcoin transactions, enabling more complex spending conditions.
- Pay-to-multi signature: allows users to lock coins with a requirement for multiple parties to sign the scriptSig before coins can be spent.
- Proof-of-burn: sends coins to a burn account, which cannot spend or redeem the coins sent to it.
Node Types
- Fully-validating nodes: permanently connected, store entire block chain, hear and forward every node/transaction.
- Lightweight nodes: store block headers, verify the puzzle was solved correctly, but cannot verify every transaction in each block.
Blockchain Resolving Disagreements
- Uses Proof-of-work and the longest chain rule to resolve disagreements.
- When the chain forks, Blockchain takes the fork with most work (i.e., longest chain).
- When there's a tie, Blockchain keeps working until one of the chains has the most work.
Nonce and Hash Cash
- Nonce is a number used in the process of proof-of-work, modified by miners to get the hash that satisfies the puzzle.
- Hash cash is a system that prevents email spamming by making email senders perform a small amount of computational work to send an email.
- The nonce acts as a counter in hash cash, usually starting from zero.
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Learn about the process of mining bitcoins, where miners verify transactions, add new blocks to the blockchain, and earn rewards. Understand how nodes verify new blocks before mining can begin.
