October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
530 pages
14h 25m
English
The word blockchain, originally called block chain, is derived from the link between blocks. Because the hash of one block is based on the hash of the previous block, it is like a chain linking all the way back to the first, or genesis, block. This process confirms the integrity of the previous blocks in the chain. The following diagram shows how blocks are linked together using the previous block hash:

Because the hash of each new block is based on the hash of the previous block, manipulation ...
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