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Story: Cryptocurrencies Distributed Ledger Technology and the Double Spending Problem

By Steven Anderson

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The major technological challenge in digital transactions is the problem of double spending. This is because any kind of digital money can be easily duplicated.

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Also, it is possible to replicate digital information quickly than physical notes. To solve the double spending problem in digital money, it is important for someone to keep a…

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Decentralized record keeping is the process by which cryptocurrencies overcome the double spending problem.

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However, every user in the network will be able to verify the copy of the ledger to cross check if a transfer has taken place or not.

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Cryptocurrency protocols also make use of permissioned DLT, which is a payment documentation mechanism in which only the trusted participants in cryptocurrency will be able to…

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In the process, only specific institutions which work a lot like central authority will be recording the transactions.

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Anything working permissioned with trust is not a surprise.  The curiosity is about whether a Permissionless system will provide for trust.

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