blockchain

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But while the debate continues, the digital ledger known as the blockchain, through which most cryptocurrencies function, may well be where the truly valuable potential of the technology lies.

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The next generation is billed as a decentralized internet powered by cryptocurrency engineering, better known as the blockchain.

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Blockchain is a decentralised, distributed and public digital ledger, which means that it is not controlled by one entity, such as a bank, but is rather upheld by a wide network.

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alexz commented on the word blockchain

a distributed record of cryptocurrency transactions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_chain_(database)

June 28, 2015
Mappleton commented on the word blockchain

A block chain or blockchain is a permissionless distributed database based on the bitcoin protocol that maintains a continuously growing list of transactional data records hardened against tampering and revision, even by operators of the data store's nodes. The initial and most widely known application of the block chain technology is the public ledger of transactions for bitcoin which would become the inspiration for similar implementations often known as altchains.

December 29, 2015