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Blockchain

arealive edited this page Sep 28, 2017 · 5 revisions

A blockchain is fundamentally a public record of state changes. 1

A blockchain is a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography. Each block typically contains a hash pointer as a link to a previous block, a timestamp and transaction data...Blocks hold batches of valid transactions that are hashed and encoded into a Merkle tree.2

[1] https://media.consensys.net/time-sure-does-fly-ed4518792679

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain

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