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Data Science Business Case: Student Loans in the USA – How to structure the project?
Introduction In this series of article, we will try to solve a Data Science Business Case by going over the different phases that would make this a successful project. The business case we will focus on is as follows: Business Case: A financial company wishes to enter...
Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies
What is Bitcoin mining and how does it actually work?
Article featured on CryptoTesters: https://smly.ga/wZeRnq2_sR Bitcoin mining refers to the security mechanism implemented into the Bitcoin protocol to achieve consensus over the state of the blockchain, in a decentralised way. It is key to understand how that...
What is the Lightning Network and how does it make Bitcoin scalable?
Article featured on CryptoTesters: https://smly.ga/diMOrq9FBF The Lightning Network (LN) is a second-layer scalability solution which enables peer-to-peer off-chain transactions by routing payments through a network of payment channels. This sentence might...
Lightning Network: Some Graph Theory Metrics - Part 2 (Practical Guide)
Introduction This article is part of a series of articles aimed to analyse the Lightning Network topology using graph theory concepts. In the first article, I went over a set of metrics which are helpful in monitoring the growth of the network and the health of its...
Lightning Network: Some Graph Theory Metrics — Part 1
As the network grows, visualisation becomes a less practical option for analysis. Let’s look at some useful network metrics instead.