Cryptocurrency and Friends

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Rollups: Centralised front-end, decentralised back-end

MEV-boost and layer-1’s censorship resistance

Mental models for L1 and L2

Who are the block proposers?

An overview of the peer to peer network

What is a smart contract?

Basics of digital signatures

Basics of a hash function and their usage in cryptocurrencies

The "crypto" in cryptocurrency

Ethereum's account model

Bitcoin's UTXO model

How do cryptocurrencies work under the hood?

Why are cryptocurrencies interesting?

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