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What is Block Chain
1.
A digitized, decentralized, public ledger of all cryptocurrency transactions.
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2.
Where crypto currency dealings get recorded. It operates like a public ledger where in order, once entered, can’t be distorted.
Block chain
technology also has quite a lot of non-crypto currency applications together with smart contracts and the copy of digital assets.
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3.
A
block chain
is a perfect place to store value, identities, agreements, property rights, credentials, etc. Once you put something like a Bit coin into it, it will stay there forever. It is decentralized, disinter mediated, cheap, and censorship-resistant.
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Digital pieces of information stored in a public database, also referred to as distributed ledger technology.
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As the name suggests,
block chain
is a
chain
of
block
s that serves as a public ledger of the Bitcoin network revealing ownership information of all the addresses. It is like a data file that contains the history of all the Bitcoin transactions that have taken place till now. Every
block
is based on its predecessor and contains information about the new transactions that got validated through it.
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The
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mechanisms perform registration and authentication of all IoT devices and IoT system operations performed.
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A public record of all bitcoin transactions mined since the beginning of bitcoin cryptocurrency.
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It is distributed database of the transactions in bitcoin or cryptocurrency and maintained in multiple computers which are linked in a network.
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A technology that is most simply defined as a decentralized, distributed ledger that records the provenance of a digital assets.
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