Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Dictionary
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Blockchain
Blockchain is most simply defined as a decentralized, distributed ledger technology that records the provenance of a digital asset. To put it simply it is a kind of database for storing information related to the crypto world.
However, it works in a completely different way when compared to a normal database. Usually, databases organize the data using tables or indexes, but when it comes to blockchain the way how information is stored relies on blocks that are chained together.
Whenever new data enters the blockchain, it is stored in a new block. And when the data block is full, the blockchain connects it to the prior existing block. In this way, the complete system works on a chained system that follows a particular order while undergoing the process.
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