Synopsis Blockchain
Synopsis Blockchain
“BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY”
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Abstract
While blockchain offers benefits like enhanced transparency, data integrity, and
decentralization, it faces challenges, including scalability, energy consumption, and
regulatory concerns. Nonetheless, it holds transformative potential, promising more
secure, efficient, and transparent systems across diverse sectors.
Introduction
A blockchain is essentially a distributed database of records or public ledger of all
transactions or digital events that have been executed and shared among participating
parties. Each transaction in the public ledger is verified by consensus of a majority of
the participants in the system. And, once entered, information can never be erased. The
blockchain contains a certain and verifiable record of every single transaction ever
made. To use a basic analogy, it is easy to steal a cookie from a cookie jar, kept in a
secluded place than stealing the cookie from a cookie jar kept in a market place, being
observed by thousands of people. Bitcoin is the most popular example that is
intrinsically tied to blockchain technology. It is also the most controversial one since it
helps to enable a multibillion-dollar global market of anonymous transactions without
any governmental control. Hence it has to deal with a number of regulatory issues
involving national governments and financial institutions.
Evolution of Blockchain
Blockchain technology originated in 2008 with the creation of Bitcoin, the first
decentralized cryptocurrency, by an anonymous individual or group under the
pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The underlying blockchain protocol was designed to
address issues of trust, security, and transparency in financial transactions without
relying on central institutions like banks. Bitcoin’s white paper, titled Bitcoin: A Peer-
to-Peer Electronic Cash System, outlined the concept of a distributed ledger that
records transactions in a decentralized manner.