APIs are very technical, and yet they are used everywhere. Simply put: APIs allow different apps and services to work together in various ways. In this video, I'll highlight four ways in which APIs...
Mining Bitcoin or Ethereum is a hard task for your computer. But why? And what does the difficulty have to do with the security of blockchains? Learn all about blockchains, consensus algorithms and...
How can Bitcoin have any value? Is Ethereum worthless? Well, yeah! But so are your dollars, euros, yens. Money is a weird thing. It is not backed by gold or silver, but by our belief in it.
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Wallets in cryptocurrency work in a weird way. They also have some weird properties like: they can be created offline and be used directly. Whut? Let's see how it all works, Simply Explained!
The fact that I have blue eyes, blond hair and that I have an average height is all encoded in my DNA. It’s nature’s way of storing data, but could we also use it to store digital data like documen...
How does a computer know how to reach youtube.com? This domain name needs to be translated to an IP address and that's where DNS comes in. Let's learn how it works!
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Mastodon is a "federated" social network that works like Twitter. It puts the control of data into the user's hands, not in a single corporation.
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We know public WiFi shouldn't be trusted, but why? What are the risks when do you connect to a coffeeshop network and how can you protect yourself for them?
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Protecting your online privacy could become a lot easier with Zero Knowledge Proof. A technique that allows you to prove things without disclosing what it is you're proving.
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Will the new European privacy law kill blockchains? On first sight they seem incompatible with each other. So let's take a closer look!
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Use Graph Theory to transport a wolf🐺 , sheep 🐑 and cabbage 🥗 across a river. Or use it to figure out how you can cross the 7 bridges of Konigsberg without crossing the same bridge twice. Or how...
Ethereum is about to get another big update. It's called Constantinople and will increase the performance of the network and introduce some new features. It will also delay the difficulty bomb. Her...
My first laptop lost track of time, so that got me thinking: how do computers keep track of time? Can they do it forever? And why don't they lose track of time when we turn them off?
Turns out the ...
Cookies can be used to invade your privacy and track you around the internet. But what are cookies and how do they work? They were initially invented to make our lives easier and are used to keep u...
We've all heard about Blockchains but how can they be used in the real world? How can we apply them? What problems can they solve?
Well, in this video I'll give you 9 examples:
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