Here are some blog posts on the inner workings of blockchains and cryptocurrency.
Addresses and wallets
- Monero stealth addresses
- Monero subaddresses
- Vanity addresses
- Ethereum address checksum algorithm
- Base58 and Bitcoin addresses
- What’s in your wallet?
- Recovering an out-of-order seed phrase
- Probability of typing a wrong Bitcoin address
Zero knowledge proofs
- Elliptic curves used in zero-knowledge proofs
- How to prove you know a discrete logarithm
- Zero knowledge proof of compositeness
- Legendre and Ethereum
- What is a Pedersen commitment?
Proof of work
- What is the Bitcoin proof of work problem?
- Why use hash puzzles for proof of work?
- Bitcoin mining difficulty over time
Elliptic curves
- Pallas, Vesta, and Zcash
- Bitcoin’s elliptic curve
- Monero’s elliptic curve
- Ethereum’s consensus layer curve
- Tiny Jubjub elliptic curve
- Elliptic curve pairings
Quantum computing
Miscellaneous
- What is RIPEMD-160?
- Genesis Block Easter Egg
- How blocks are chained in a blockchain
- Why and how Bitcoin uses Merkle trees
- Primecoin, Riecoin, and Gapcoin
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