From "Just Data" to "A Global Database": My Second Week Learning Solana

Day 13 of 100 Days of Solana — Reflecting on Reading On-Chain Data When I started this challenge two weeks ago with Major League Hacking(MLH), I thought blockchain was just a ledger with transactions. I was wrong—and that realization is worth writing about. The Expectation vs. Reality Before I touched any code, I imagined blockchain data like this: Transactions sit in a database somewhere I'd need special permission to read them The data would be siloed, private by default Maybe I'd need to run