Is it possible to go from a pessimist to a realist, or a pessimist to an optimist? Well, let's see :). The Like-O-Meter Keeping with the metaphor of the elephant and the rider, the most important words

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it . - Marcus Aurelius What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our

My birthday's coming around in a few days, so it's got me being a little nostalgic. I used to work at a gas station at an intersection between one of the main streets and a off-chute street in my old town.

Book Summary The Skinny You're divided. In some ways, one might argue that you are one being. Yet, in other ways you are a series of connected modules that often times work together, and other times to

Seriously though, what happens behind the scenes of an ethereum transaction. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

Let's get set up with some ether so that we can start looking at how transactions work and how to start building and testing smart contracts with ether. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

We've all made accounts across the internet. Is making an Ethereum account just business as usual. The short answer is no...no it's not ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

Cryptographic Algorithms There are three main types of crypto algorithms. Symmetric Asymmetric Hash Functions Individually, these algorithms all serve a specific purpose. Put them together and you have

Let's install metamask so we can create and Ethereum account and start working our way towards and app on our test network. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

Time to look at what tools we're using to build Ethereum applications since we've already covered why it exists and what it actually is. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

Before we starting building applications on top of Ethereum, I wanted to cover my bases and explain what it actually is, from a birds eye view. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

This is going to be a short one guys. I'm just summing up the basic lessons to be learned from my first five posts about cryptography and what it has to do with how we implement cryptography today. First

To start off this series, it helps to first understand how and more importantly why Ethereum came about. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

Steemit ----> An introduction to what I do and what you can expect from me as a member of the community! Hope you enjoy and I'm looking forward to interacting with you guys!! ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

Communication On A Channel Without Trust Both one time pads and the enigma machine helped push cryptography along. However, one of the biggest advancements in cryptography was to take places decades after

This Is Why The Allies Could Break The Enigma's Ciphers In the beginning of this series we explored, what cryptography is and why it's useful. After that, we started getting into one of the most basic

The Enigma Machine In my last post, we looked at how we can use one time pads to encrypt messages. However, the difficulty in using a one time pad is that while they have the potential to have the maximum

One Time Pads Let's talk about them. One time pads were widely used throughout the 1900's. Especially, during WW1 and WW2 and even coming into The Cold War. In my last post, I kind of got a little too

What We're Learning and Purpose Of This Series In this series, we're going to be looking at the basics of cryptography, how cryptographic primitives work, how to implement them correctly, and also reason

Big shout out to SIRAJ RAVAL for making this article possible. I mostly used github, IOTA's personal website, and Siraj's channel to make this article. Make sure to visit his channel here for a wealth