Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet: Cryptocurrency

Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet

A Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet, (or shortly HD wallet), is a modern type of Cryptocurrency-Wallet that derives Private-Keys from a Seed. 

The legacy of Non-Deterministic wallet and HD wallet combined resolves into flexibility for end-user with interoperability and enhanced privacy with one-time backup.

Trezor is one of the first Hierarchical-Deterministic-Wallets brought to the market.

See also: Address path, Non-deterministic wallet, Cryptocurrency standards

What are the advantages of HD wallets?

HD wallets solve problems of legacy cryptocurrency wallets which randomly generate private keys on the fly and require repeated backups; insanity!

HD wallets bring the possibility of deriving all the addresses (public and Private-Key pairs) from a single Recovery Seed.

This means an HD wallet needs only one backup.

The advantages of hierarchical deterministic wallets over standard cryptocurrency wallets are:

• Easy backups - if you control the recovery seed, you can generate the entire tree of children keys (public/private key pairs).
• Storing your private keys offline - possibility to derive the entire tree of public keys (addresses) from a parent public key without needing any private keys.
• Access controls - Hierarchical deterministic wallets are arranged in a tree formation. The owner of the master seed controls all assets in the wallet and can create whole branches of keypairs if he or she wants to let someone spend only part of the coins in the wallet.
• Accounting - The owner of the master seed can create public keys at any level of a wallet tree formation to let someone access the transaction history of a specific part of the wallet.

See also : BIP32, BIP44, BIP49

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Recovery-Seed: Cryptocurrency

Recovery seed

a RecoverySeed, (or shortly a seed), is a list of words in a specific order which store all the information needed to recover a wallet.

Keeping the recovery seed of private-key and safe is the key for long-term safety of the user's cryptocurrency funds.

 Also read -i.e.:Recovery Seed With Trezord

Cryptocurrency-Standards: Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency standards

This is an overview of cryptocurrency standards BIPs and SLIPs Cryptography that are relevant to the Trezor device or Trezor Wallet, meaning they are either already supported or their support is planned. The standards are organized into groups based on their common topic below.

Cryptography-Cryptocurrency

Cryptography

Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of untrusted third parties.

Cryptography is about constructing and analyzing protocols that prevent third parties or the public from reading private messages and intercepting transactions.

A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses strong cryptography to secure financial transactions, control the creation of additional units, and verify the transfer of assets.

Cryptocurrencies use decentralized control as opposed to centralized digital currency and central banking systems.

The decentralized control of each cryptocurrency works through distributed ledger technology, typically a blockchain, that serves as a public financial transaction database.

Bitcoin, first released as open-source software in 2009, is generally considered the first decentralized cryptocurrency.

Since the release of bitcoin, over 4,000 altcoins (alternative variants of bitcoin, or other cryptocurrencies) have been created.

Trezor uses the most modern and sophisticated cryptographic protocols to protect your funds, transactions, communication, passwords and to back up your wallets.

See also: Elliptic-curve cryptography, Public-key cryptography

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Free Open-Source FPGA-Simulators: Cryptocurrency

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Free Open-Source FPGA-Simulators

This is the Free Open-Source FPGA-Simulators, such as, SystemVerilog that is not a proprietary language and is free for personal use. I think what you mean is a free simulator that can compile and run SystemVerilog. Here’s that information:

1. If working online is an option for you, check out www.edaplayground.com. It is an online IDE that gives you access to Synopsys VCS, Cadence Ncisive and other simulators.
2. Download ModelSim PE Student Edition. It supports many, if not all SystemVerilog constructs.

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List of Verilog simulators in alphabetical order

Simulator name	License	Author/company	Supported languages	Description
GPL Cver	GPL	Pragmatic C Software	V1995, minimal V2001	This is a GPL open-source simulator. It is a pure simulator. This simulator is not fully IEEE 1364-2001 compliant. It does not support generate and constant functions.
Icarus Verilog	GPL2+	Stephen Williams	V1995, V2001, V2005, limited SV2005/SV2009	Also known as iverilog. Good support for Verilog 2005, including generate statements and constant functions.
LIFTING		A. Bosio, G. Di Natale (LIRMM)	V1995	LIFTING (LIRMM Fault Simulator) is an open-source simulator able to perform both logic and fault simulation for single/multiple stuck-at faults and single event upset (SEU) on digital circuits described in Verilog.
OSS CVC	Perl style artistic license	Tachyon Design Automation	V2001, V2005	CVC is a Verilog HDL compiled simulator. CVC has the ability to simulate in either interpreted or compiled mode. Source code is available under a Perl style artistic license.
TkGate	GPL2+	Jeffery P. Hansen	V1995	Event driven digital circuit editor and simulator with tcl/tk GUI based on Verilog. Includes Verilog simulator Verga.
Verilator	GPL3	Veripool	Synthesizable V1995, V2001, V2005, SV2005, SV2009, SV2012, SV2017	This is a very high speed open-source simulator that compiles synthesizable Verilog to multithreaded C++/SystemC.
Verilog Behavioral Simulator (VBS)	GPL	Lay H. Tho and Jimen Ching	V1995	Supports functions, tasks and module instantiation. Still lacks a lot of features, but this release has enough for a VLSI student to use and learn Verilog. Supports only behavioral constructs of Verilog and minimal simulation constructs such as 'initial' statements.
VeriWell	GPL2	Elliot Mednick	V1995	This simulator used to be commercial, but has recently become GPL open-source. Compliance with 1364 is not well documented. It is not fully compliant with IEEE 1364-1995.
ISOTEL Mixed Signal & Domain	GPL	ngspice and Yosys communities, and Isotel	V2005	Open-source mixed signal ngspice simulator in combination with verilog synthesis software called Yosys and Isotel extension for embedded C/C++ (or other) co-simulation.

List of VHDL simulators in alphabetical order 

Simulator name	License	Author/company	Supported languages	Description
GHDL	GPL2+	Tristan Gingold	VHDL-1987, VHDL-1993, VHDL-2002, partial VHDL-2008	GHDL is a complete VHDL simulator, using the GCC technology.
Icarus Verilog	GPL2+	Maciej Sumiński Stephen Williams	It supports the 1995, 2001 and 2005 versions of the standard, portions of SystemVerilog, and some extensions.	VHDL preprocessor added that converts VHDL to Verilog
NVC	GPL3	Nick Gasson	VHDL-1993	NVC is a GPLv3 VHDL compiler and simulator aiming for IEEE 1076-2002 compliance. See these blog posts for background information. NVC has been successfully used to simulate several real-world designs.
YoSys	GPL3	UnKnown	Verilog-2005 design	Yosys is a framework for Verilog RTL synthesis.

 

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Tag	Description
V1995	IEEE 1364-1995 Verilog
V2001	IEEE 1364-2001 Verilog
V2005	IEEE 1364-2005 Verilog
SV2005	IEEE 1800-2005 SystemVerilog
SV2009	IEEE 1800-2009 SystemVerilog
SV2012	IEEE 1800-2012 SystemVerilog
SV2017	IEEE 1800-2017 SystemVerilog
VHDL-1987	IEEE 1076-1987 VHDL
VHDL-1993	IEEE 1076-1993 VHDL
VHDL-2002	IEEE 1076-2002 VHDL
VHDL-2008	IEEE 1076-2008 VHDL

See also

• Verilog
• SystemVerilog
• VHDL
• Waveform viewer

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SegWit: Cryptocurrency

SegWit

 

 

Segregated Witness (SegWit) is a protocol upgrade providing protection from transaction malleability, and this is an increase of block capacity.

SegWit defines a new structure called a witness committed to blocks separately from the transaction merkle tree.

This structure contains data required to check transaction validity, and this is not required to determine transaction effects.

Signatures and redeem scripts are moved into this new structure.

This does not count add to the traditional one (1)MB block size limit and a new weight parameter is defined,.

These blocks are allowed to have maximum of 4 million weight units (WU).

A byte in the original one (1)MB zone of the block weighs 4 WU.

A byte in a witness structure only weighs 1 WU.

In and by this translation allowing blocks technically larger than one (1)MB without a hardforking change.

SegWit was the last protocol change needed to make the Lightning network safe to deploy on the Bitcoin network.

ScriptPubKey: Cryptocurrency

ScriptPubKey

A ScriptPubKey is an ouput transaction script. It defines a condition that must be met to spend funds commited to the output in question.

See also: ScriptSig
 
To understand how transactions work on basic technical level, check blog post Types of Bitcoin transactions: Part I, Part 2.

More detailed description can be found in Bitcoin Wiki or in Bitcoin.org Developer guide.

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