What is Block Chain

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A digitized, decentralized, public ledger of all cryptocurrency transactions. Learn more in: Developing the Social, Political, Economic, and Criminological Awareness of Cybersecurity Experts: A Proposal and Discussion of Non-Technical Topics for Inclusion in Cybersecurity Education

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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. Learn more in: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security

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Digital pieces of information stored in a public database, also referred to as distributed ledger technology. Learn more in: Education 4.0: Future of Learning With Disruptive Technologies

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As the name suggests, block chain is a chain of blocks 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. Learn more in: Drug Trafficking

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The block chain mechanisms perform registration and authentication of all IoT devices and IoT system operations performed. Learn more in: Enabling Technologies for IoT: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities

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A public record of all bitcoin transactions mined since the beginning of bitcoin cryptocurrency. Learn more in: Has Bitcoin Achieved the Characteristics of Money?