Introductory Concepts of Blockchain Mining: Wolfram U Class

How and why blockchains are mined. Learn components of a Bitcoin block, cryptographic hashes, linkage, immutability. Create, read and modify an example using Wolfram Language functions.

Summary
This lesson explores the details of how and why blockchains are mined. Topics include the components of a Bitcoin block, cryptographic hashes that constrain the system and a toy blockchain example. Learn about Wolfram Language blockchain functions through generating, reading and modifying example blocks in a chain.

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You'll Learn To

Understand the motivations for mining blockchains
Generate hash functions and understand their use in mining blocks
Recognize the key block components in the puzzle mining problem
Create a genesis block and see the information in that block
Verify a block's linkage and its immutability through ID verification
Display information about individual blocks in a chain