Blockchain Essentials: Recent Episodes
Oliver Hoyos Dominguez
With Blockchain Essentials we will break down the different blockchain technologies and projects to better understand the history, news, and insights in web3.
Join me while I explore some of the biggest challenges facing blockchain adoption. I will also talk about the solutions the blockchain community is currently working on to solve these issues.
Today, we will look at some more concepts and explain how they work in simple terms. Let’s start with what a crypto wallet is. In order to explain what a crypto wallet is, we will first talk about how a regular wallet works.
In a regular wallet, you store your debit cards, credit cards, cash, and business cards. In a crypto wallet, you can store your cryptocurrencies, NFT's and smart contract transactions. The difference between your regular wallet and a crypto wallet is that with a crypto wallet you do not have anything tangible, everything is on the blockchain, even your crypto.
Now, let’s take it a step further, a crypto wallet is composed of a private key and a public key. The private key looks like a string of random numbers or, depending on your wallet, a set of 12 or 24 words that you will be given upon the creation of your crypto wallet.
You use this set of letters to restore your wallet in case you lose access to it. While you have to keep your private key secret because otherwise, someone can steal your funds, your public key is what you would share with anyone sending crypto to your wallet.
To learn more about crypto wallets listen to the podcast episode entirely!
Today we're going to break down what blockchain technology is in basic terms and dive into decentralized finance better known as Defi.
There's more than meets the eye for Cardano. In this podcast episode, we will break down the company partners to Cardano including IOHK, the Cardano Foundation, and Emurgo.
Let's dive into Cardano's staking capabilities, the technology behind it, and what it offers to investors.
In today's episode, we explore the various Cardano projects using the resource Cardano Cube. On this website, you can explore different project categories amongst NFTs, Defi, games, and other applications.
Projects we get into:
- SundaeSwap
- Mycelial Gallery
- Ada Handle
Welcome to the first episode of Blockchain Essentials! Today we will discuss Cardano and its history. Cardano is one of the most well-known and utilized blockchain technologies thus far and it promises a lot of future applications. Some say that it will be the #1 cryptocurrency overtaking Etherium both in market cap and utilization but let's discuss its backstory first!