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In Spite of the unprecedented gains discovered in Ethereum and Bitcoin, it could turn out that neither of them can implement the changes in blockchain technology fast enough to turn into the dominant blockchain network.\n\nNow if one blockchain turns dominant, the others then, might just fade away, like with Facebook’s dominance over Orkut and MySpace. That blockchain would become the foundation of how we all transact with one another in the future. Today, the most widely used and popular blockchains, Ethereum and Bitcoin, are struggling with a huge scaling issue. By design, their networks consume more and more amounts of power and while slowly processing transactions. 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Solving these puzzles correctly takes so much computational power that the “miners” don’t have the computing power to try to influence the result of the network to birth the blocks most advantageous to any particular miner. Rather, they have to focus on solving the puzzle as fast as possible to increase the chances of getting the next block and so capturing the network’s reward. It gets more and more difficult and energy intensive to generate the next block, as each new block generates. In practice, this, unfortunately, leads to scaling problems over two dimensions: speed and energy use. The Ethereum and Bitcoin networks together consume more electricity than a few countries like Iceland, Jordan, and Syria.\n\nFurther, the puzzles miners need to solve get harder as nodes in the network use more computing power to generate new blocks. This way more and more computing power is consumed by the network. However, no new benefits are generated as miners work harder. The power is being consumed to stop individual miners from influencing the network for their own advantage and recording those transactions that will be most beneficial to any one miner as the next block on the chain. However, the computational power consumed by the network will not generate any independent value.\n\n<strong>Proof-of-work system to a roof-of-stake system.</strong>\nThe creator of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, has proposed transitioning Ethereum to a proof-of-stake system from a proof-of-work system. In a proof-of-stake system, entities can choose to stake a portion of their tokens in the system on any new block. The block added to the blockchain, is the one with the most stake behind it. The network that chooses to validate the latest block the network adds to the blockchain, is rewarded with network tokens given to a random sampling of nodes. To stand a chance of getting a reward once you’ve validated the genuine block, all participants on the network are persuaded to validate the genuine version of the network. Theoretically, proof-of-stake networks shouldn’t see increasing energy needs as miners compete for cryptocurrency using computational resources, that could make it more scalable. Nevertheless, transitioning from one system to another isn’t a straightforward process.\n\nFor Ethereum to move from a proof-of-work system to a proof-of-stake system, the network’s code will have to be updated by a group of Ethereum developers that are centralized. Then the users on the Ethereum network will choose whether they want to continue to use the old version or shift to the newer version of Ethereum. If some decide to use the old version and some the new, then the chain undergoes a split or a hard fork, and both versions of Ethereum are available. 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Now this network is designed to update the spreadsheet regularly. This way the information retained in a blockchain rests as a continuously reconciled and shared database. Again, the blockchain database isn’t kept in just one location, which means the records it keeps are genuinely public and verifiable, easily. No version of this data is centralized for a hacker to skew. To anyone on the internet, its data is hosted simultaneously, by numerous computers and is accessible.\n\n<strong>But what’s wrong with the way we store information now?</strong>\nTraditionally, we would send a Word document to the recipient asking them to make revisions to it. The problem with this is that you have to wait until you get a return copy before you can see and make changes to it since you were locked out of editing it until the person at the other end is done with it. This is how databases work today. Both owners can’t work on the same record at the same time. 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And these breaches come with dire consequences, leaving thousands of us vulnerable to identity theft and fraud. Now Blockchain can’t necessarily stop that from happening. Blockchain can’t stop hackers from getting into your computer system if your admin password happens to be your birth date. But other times, when hackers rely on brute force , that is, formidable computing power to attack a system, blockchain makes that close to impossible.\n\n<strong>Enhanced security</strong>\nThe blockchain removes the risks associated with data being held centrally, by storing data across its network. This way the network doesn’t have any centralized places of vulnerability that computer hackers can exploit. Think about it this way. The internet was created to move information. That information needs to be stored somewhere, and so now, all of us on earth together must have an insane number of databases. Picture them as houses that store information. It’s hard, but not impossible to break into a house. Cybersecurity is an online lock protecting that house. Blockchain technology breaks the database into many tiny pieces and then spreads it across many computers. This way, instead of having to break into a single home, you now have to break into an entire city. This is the distributed part of it. Every part of the structure , be it a self-driving car’s navigation system, a unit of currency like bitcoin or even your voting or health records are spread over a network of intertwined links of data. The more complex it gets, all the more secure the system gets. If a hacker even manages to break into a block, the changes he makes will permanently and immediately be visible. And this is just the beginning. It also self-repairs once it self-checks.\n\nInternet today has security issues we are all familiar with. All of us rely on the username and password method to protect our assets and identity online. 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