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Blockchain

A shared, tamper-resistant ledger made of linked blocks of transactions.

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Each block records a batch of transactions and links to the one before it, so changing history would require redoing all the work after it. Public blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are maintained by many independent computers.

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