Blockchain, in essence, is the technology upon which the increasingly well-known cryptocurrency Bitcoin is built upon. The guiding idea behind the blockchain is rather simple (but ingenious): “transactions,” (broadly conceived, they do not need to be currency) are timestamped as they occur and added to a public ledger that everyone can verify and check for authenticity.

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