Blockchain 101 - Part 2 - Public / Private Keys and Signing

This is part two in my basic visual introduction to the concepts behind a blockchain. We build on the concepts from the previous video and introduce public / private key pairs and signing using an interactive web demo. If you missed it, part 1 is here: If you are interested in playing with this on your own, it is available online at: The code that runs this demo is also on GitHub: If you want to know more about how public key cryptography works, see the Wikipedia page on it: The details of how public keys relate to private keys are hard to summarize, but it has to do with Euler’s theorem. Basically, using Euler’s theorem there is some math you can do to a number given some parameters (which I’ll call the public key) which allows someone with some other parameters (whi