Law Enforcement is one of the industries that stand to gain the most from blockchain’s innovative technology. Throughout history, people have had to rely on their local governing bodies to arbitrate in case of dispute for, say, land or other assets and this model suffers from the inherent weaknesses of a centralized organization like bias and inaccuracy. It was estimated that businesses spend somewhere around $4 billion every year in order to verify property title deeds. This is where a data integrity project like Factom could help people by using their authentication solutions to secure physical documents on the Bitcoin Blockchain. For example, if the title deeds to land could be appended to the Bitcoin Blockchain using data integrity services provided by Factom, the owner is easy to determine until the end of time and the record is resistant to tampering.

The areas where legal service industry will be revolutionized include Smart Contracts and Intellectual Property Rights

Smart Contracts
Although not part of Bitcoin, Smart Contracts are invariably linked to blockchain technology as they can revolutionize the way humans conduct business. Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization implemented smart contracts which are executed over the decentralized Ethereum infrastructure. With Ethereum it is possible to create contracts that self-execute when certain conditions are met.

Intellectual Property Rights
With the advent of the internet, as media has become increasingly available to the masses because of file-sharing services, it has also become harder to maintain ownership of content to ensure that content creators are compensated fairly for their work. There are several interesting projects in the cryptocurrency space that are coming up with unique ways to combat intellectual property theft.
SingularDTV is one the foremost intellectual property Blockchain solutions that are aiming to revolutionize content distribution in order to ensure more equitable outcomes for artists. In their unique model, artists can tokenize their upcoming projects to raise funds from investors who in turn get rewarded from sales of the final product. In the real world, this would work by artists creating a sort of initial coin offering for their newest project. Investors can buy shares in projects they find interesting and because of smart contracts, they can get paid in the future. For every dollar earned by the final product, a pro rata share goes to all of the investors. This model incentivizes users to be part of content creation and also to share the profits. Artists benefit as they retain the ownership of their work and also get paid more because no middlemen are involved.

For more information check these links

https://www.blockchain-council.org/blockchain/blockchain-technology-could-revolutionize-legal-services/

https://news.law.fordham.edu/jcfl/2017/09/25/blockchain-and-the-legal-industry/

A Brain Wallet is the one when user remembers their mnemonic phrase or the private key and never writes it down. That is, all is stored in the brain only for security reasons.

So why have a brain wallet and still write you private key or mnemonic phrase down on a piece of paper?

To me brain wallet is not good because it is difficult to manage in case the user forgets his/her mnemonic paraphrase or private key due to any mishap such as  accidents, brain diseases/ damage or even mental stress, he /she will lose his/her crypto-coins and funds.

Alternate cryptocurrencies can be mined using the same hardware as for mining Bitcoins (mostly SHA-256 alt coins). While bitcoin mining is going to use FPGA and ASIC devices, scrypt based alt coins can be mined using GPU cards.
Altcoins using SHA-256, the same hashing algorithm as Bitcoin include:
•   NMC – Namecoin
•   PPC – Peercoin
•   DVC – Devcoin
•   TRC – Terracoin
•   BTE – Bytecoin
•   IXC – Ixcoin
•   I0C – I0coin
•   FRC – Freicoin
•   XJO – Joulecoin
•   ZET – Zetacoin
•   ASC -AsicCoin
•   DEM – Deutsche eMark
•   UNO – Unobtanium
•   PT – Platinum Coin
•   BLC – Blakecoin
•   RKC – Reikicoin
•   TIT – Titcoin

A very educative video about bitcoin underlying techniques. it is very easy and simple to understand. Nice work

As far as the users of Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash are concerned there is very little noticeable difference on the frontend when using either currency. The main difference between these coins is the fact that, given equal hashrate, BCC protocol allows for more transactions per second which translates to faster payments and lower fees.
Bitcoin is being forked into two different currencies, each sharing a common transaction history from before the fork. Bitcoin Cash is the chain supported by the miners who wanted larger blocks, and the regular Bitcoin chain is the one supported by the core developers. On the day of the fork, every BTC address suddenly had a twin existing on the BCH network. If, at the time of the fork, an address had 0.45 Bitcoin, then its twin on the BCH network had 0.45 Bitcoin Cash after the fork.

Coinbase, the largest of the exchanges, and the most rapidly growing, issued their statement via Twitter.

Update on Bitcoin SegWit2x hard fork:
https://t.co/REQYVtTYva — Coinbase (@coinbase) October 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/916430726047817728/photo/1


The statement provides guidance for consumers who are currently storing Bitcoin in Coinbase wallets. Unlike their activity during the previous Bitcoin Cash hard fork, Coinbase has committed to allowing trading on both exchanges, though not without some delay. The statement makes it clear that neither fork will be operational immediately after the fork, until Coinbase has determined that both chains are safe.

They have reaffirmed its intention to provide support for both Bitcoin blockchains following the SegWit2x hard fork in November, 2017. Significantly, the forked blockchain will be listed as Bitcoin2x under the B2X ticker symbol.

https://www.ccn.com/nail-in-the-coffin-coinbase-to-list-segwit2x-chain-as-bitcoin2x/

Are you referring to n of m transactions or m of n transaction?

If it is m of n transactions checkout this link to understand more

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Multisignature

To me lightning network will be of good choice than segwit2mb because it is a layer two protocol that allows bitcoin users to create a network of bi-directional payment channels and perform instant off-chain transactions through these channels. Using lightning will reduce pressure on the blockchain while enabling much more transaction capacity (limited only by the number of channel open and channel close transactions that can fit in the blockchain). In terms of transaction, lightning network allowing participants to transfer money to each other without having to make all their transactions public on the blockchain (which would make transactions “lightening fast”).

Script is the name of the Bitcoin protocol’s scripting system that processes and validates transactions. Script is a clever, stack-based instruction engine, and it makes all transactions from simple payments to complex oracle overseen contracts possible. All bitcoin transactions have scripts embedded into its inputs and outputs. The scripts use a very simple programming language, which is evaluated from left to right using a stack. The language is designed such that it guarantees all scripts will execute in a limited amount of time. When a transaction is validated, the input scripts are concatenated with the output scripts and evaluated. To be valid, all transaction scripts must evaluate to true. A good analogy for how this works is that the output scripts are puzzles that specify in which conditions can those bitcoins be spent. The input scripts provide the correct data to make those output scripts evaluate to true.

https://bitcore.io/api/lib/script

Read through this link i think it should help

http://www.gobitgo.com/articles/1005/How-To-Recover-Your-Bitcoin-Wallet-Password/

https://uwsoftware.be/index.php/bitcoin-recovery-service/

https://blog.btc.com/how-to-recover-bitcoin-cash-from-other-wallets-fbc847026ab6

https://multibit.org/help/hd0.3/restore-wallet.html

It is likely blockchain starts to inter-operate next year because 2018 will be the year when major financial institutions will adopt digital assets, and marks the birth of hybrid blockchains.

To make the broad use of digital assets truly mainstream, however, I think we’ll need the many blockchain networks that currently exist to inter-operate. The truth is there will not be one single dominant blockchain network in the future as there isn’t any dominant internet or email provider globally today. Looking at the use of email address which is being inter-operated that is we can all email family, friends and colleagues from Gmail to Yahoo to Outlook seamlessly and instantly. Likewise, value should move across all ledgers in exactly the same way irrespective of the blockchain network, PayPal wallet or traditional bank account involved.

https://www.coindesk.com/death-ico-4-2018-predictions/

The node will look at a transaction as it arrives and then run many of checks to verify it. Each node builds its own transaction pool, which are mostly the same. The conditions can change and evolve over time and a present list can be checked through the AcceptToMemoryPool, CheckTransaction and CheckInputs functions in the bitcoin client.

1.Know  basic commands line code (C++).

2.You will need to access your computers console.

3.Invest in a book called Mastering by Andreas Anasopolous this man has a wealth of knowledge and YouTube videos and an online class at the university of Nicosia.

4.You will also need Git Hub there's lots of chain codes there.

5.Remember there are different kind of blockchains for example Ethereum is different than Bitcoin and say Open Ledger is an exchange but also a community and you can create coins in there if you can figure it out.

6. http://davidderosa.com/basic-blockchain-programming

7.Go to http://bitcoin.org there is lots of resources there you will need and say http://bitcoin.com/en/development there you will find developer communities and be able to get advice from other Dev’s along your way.

8.Read all about it and practice with yourself alone with the Internet dev peeps.

YES!!!! bitcoin is always running up everyday and the more people invest into bitcoin the more bitcoin gains its strength for worldwide acceptance.

As at 2015/2016, there are five standard transactions which are accepted by the standard client which include Basic, P2SH or Pay-to-Script-Hash, Multisig, RETURN and Non-standard – although some miners will accept a non standard transaction for a price. The most popular type of transaction is the TX_PUBKEY, or Pay to Public Key Transaction (P2PKH) with over 89% of total transaction as at 2015.

The latest transaction type  as at 2017 is SegWit which is the name used for an implemented soft fork change in the transaction format of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin which has also been implemented on currencies such as Litecoin, DigiByte, Vertcoin and Groestlcoin.

The formal title "Segregated Witness (Consensus layer)" had Bitcoin Improvement Proposal number BIP141.  It is intended to mitigate a blockchain size limitation problem that reduces Bitcoin transaction speed. It does this by splitting the transaction into two segments, removing the unlocking signature ("witness" data) from the original portion and appending it as a separate structure at the end. The original section would continue to hold the sender and receiver data, and the new "witness" structure would contain scripts and signatures.

The original data segment would be counted normally, but the "witness" segment would, in effect, be counted as a quarter of its real size.

YES it can be possible for blockchain to replace supermarkets. This means that distribution chain from the manufacturer to wholesalers to retailers and finally to the final consumers will be distorted making business transaction to be only between the manufacturer and the final consumers. The only advantage this will have is that it will prevent hoarding of goods by the wholesalers and the retailers and the disadvantage i foresee is the delay of goods and services as a result of delay in transactions' confirmation. (My opinion)

I think this link should help

https://askubuntu.com/questions/53553/how-do-i-retrieve-the-public-key-from-a-ssh-private-key

https://opengear.zendesk.com/entries/23216142-Generating-and-uploading-SSH-keys-under-Windows

http://www.beginninglinux.com/home/server-administration/openssh-keys-certificates-authentication-pem-pub-crt

yes i see a specific trend of massive adoption of cryptocurrencies in 2018 most especially in my country where fewer number of people are dealing/trading/investing with cryptocoins and making a huge profit from it.

If you are unsure whether your bitcoin address has received funds and/or do not have your bitcoin wallet at hand you can still check by using a Blockchain Explorer, as all bitcoin addresses are publicly visible on the bitcoin blockchain you can look them up if you are aware of the address or the transaction id.

Lists of Blockchain explorers

Blockcypher https://live.blockcypher.com/
Namecoin https://namecoin.org/explorers/
Coinsutra https://coinsutra.com/best-bitcoin-block-explorers/

I think these links should be of little help to you


http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/
https://github.com/jashmenn/bitcoin-reading-list
https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-learn-Bitcoin-Blockchain-programming
https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/learning-bitcoin/9781785287305/ch08s07.html