Patrick Malara

What is a Directed Acyclic Graph? It’s just a graph where a node (vertex) can not traverse the graph in a way where it can loop back to reach itself. That’s what the “Acyclic” part means. Directed means each edge(the connection between vertices) has a direction… Here’s an image to help clarify: What does this […]

Here is brief overview of a Peer-to-Peer network and how it relates to Bitcoin’s. This has to be a brief post, there’s just too much on this topic; however, at the end of the post I have compiled my sources for further reading. Prerequisites: Web Servers General Understanding of Bitcoin What is a Peer-to-Peer network? […]

As I’ve been trying to learn about Blockchains and how they work, I came across Merkle Trees which have become one of my favorites about the Bitcoin Blockchain. When you view a block in a blockchain, like Bitcoin’s, you’ll notice a Merkle Root in the Block’s Header. Below is my explanation of a Merkle Tree, […]