Satoshi Nakamoto created the first Blockchain project wished Bitcoin to be secure, anonymous and could work with no centralized intermediary. To achieve that, Nakamoto combined public-key cryptography, a distributed ledger, and a consensus algorithm. History of Blockchain  Nakamoto combined public-key cryptography, a distributed ledger, and a consensus algorithm. The groundwork for each component was painfully laid by people before him, such as Wei Dai, Nick Szabo, Hal Finney, and Adam Back. The Blockchain can sometimes refer to the combination of all three components or just the distributed ledger. Blockchain ideas As the name aptly describes, at the heart of the Blockchain there is a chain of blocks, each block containing read-only data that represents monetary transactions. Every time a new block is written, you need to reference the block that immediately precedes it – so, at any given point, you can track down the chain up to the very first block created. How blockchain...