Digital Currencies & Blockchain
David Stancel
About me
- Researching crypto since 2012
- MSc in Digital Currencies
- Advisor to multiple crypto startups
- Founder Blockchain Slovakia
- Co-founder of Paralelna Polis
- exCTO @ Fumbi
- Advisor @ Vacuumlabs
- Advisor @NBS
- Lecturer at STU FIIT
- Author of Coinstory
Contact:
david@coinstory.tech
History & Evolution of Digital Currencies
What is Bitcoin anyway?
| Inflation Rate - 2023 | 1.6% |
|---|---|
| Inflation Rate - 2024 | 1.1% |
| Current Block Reward | 3.125 BTC |
| Next Halving Date | April 2028 |
| Next Block Reward | 1.5625 BTC |
| Total BTC Mined | 19 600 000 |
| Total BTC Mined (%) | 92 |
| Blocks per day | ca. 144 |
| BTC Mined per day | ca. 450 BTC |
| Blockchain Size | 450 GB |
| Total nodes | ca. 10 000 |
Key Stats
Blockchain
- Looking for open, unstoppable, peer-to-peer payments, for reasons mentioned earlier.
- We need to agree about all transactions in the system –-> to reach a consensus about the state of the ledger.
- We need to get an agreement securely, expecting some participants to come and leave at any time, and expecting some will try to cheat. This can be achieved in basic form through proof-of-work, which is chaining blocks of transactions.
- Since proof-of-work is hard, it must be incentivized.
- Hence, Bitcoin and the concept of cryptocurrency is born.
So, why blockchain?
A tamper-proof, shared digital append-only ledger that records transactions grouped into blocks in a decentralized peer-to-peer network.
The permanent recording of transactions in the Blockchain stores permanently the history of asset exchanges that take place between the peers.
Updating the ledger (usually) requires solving Byzantine Agreements (hash) with economically incentivized participation, secured by cryptography
What is Blockchain?
1. New TX is broadcasted
2. Each Node collects TXs
3. Randomly selected node gains the right to canonize "the truth" in the block
4. Other nodes accept/reject the block based on its validity
5. Acceptance is expressed by including block's hash into the following blocks
Blockchain - synchronization
Non-fungible tokens (NFT)
What is this? And how could it be relevant?
Virtual Worlds on Blockchain
1. The Streaming Book by Matthew Ball, freely online
2. The Metaverse Book, and Blog by Matthew Ball
3. Virtual Economy by L'Atelier
Metaverse sources
CONVERGENCE
Traditional vs Decentralized Finance
Stable Coins
Stablecoins Market
Coinstory.tech
Thank you!
david@coinstory.tech
davidstancel.com