diff --git a/guide/english/blockchain/bitcoin/index.md b/guide/english/blockchain/bitcoin/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6e696a243a --- /dev/null +++ b/guide/english/blockchain/bitcoin/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: Basics of Bitcoin & Cyptocurrency +--- + +#### Bitcoin is a collection of concepts and technologies that form the basis of a digital money ecosystem, including: +- A decentralized peer to peer network (enabled by the _Bitcoin protocol_) +- A public transaction ledger (_the blockchain_) +- A decentralized mathematical and deterministic currency issuance mechanism (distributed mining and the _“Proof of Work”_ concept) +- A decentralized transaction verification system (transaction script) + +#### The Bitcoin system is based on decentralized trust, thus it heavily relies on cryptographic technologies, such as: +- Cryptographic hash functions (i.e.SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160) +- Public Key Cryptography (i.e. ECDSA– +the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) + + + +#### Some Important Excerpts + +1. In Bitcoin, a transaction is a record informing the network of a transfer of bitcoins from one owner to another owner. + - You may think of a transaction as the equivalent of a single line in a notebook page + - You may think of a block as the equivalent of a page on taht notebook + - You may think of blockchain as the quivalent of the whole notebook + - All the users are able to read , write and get updated on that notebook. +2. Ownership of bitcoins is established through digital keys, Bitcoin addresses, and digital signatures. +3. _Digital Keys_ are crated and stored offline and consist of a mathematically-related Private-Public key-pair, created using the Elliptic Curve Signature Algorithm(_ECDSA_) +4. The **Private key(Privkey)** is initially generated at random, and is kept secret at all times. It is used by the current owner of bitcoins to digitally sign a Bitcoin transaction, when he authorizes the transfer to the new user. A transaction +5. The **Public Key(Pubkey)** is generated from the Private Key using a one-way cryptpgraphic hash function. It is used by the owner to validate a transaction's digital signature.