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Blockchain

Blockchain Blockchain is the technology on which Bitcoin is built. Blockchain can be used to store any documents and manage their tracability. https://medium.com/s/welcome-to-blockchain/everything-you-need-to-know-about-blockchain-but-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask-b3cee3e918f8 https://blockgeeks.com/guides/what-is-blockchain-technology/ https://app.pluralsight.com/player?course=blockchain-fundamentals A Blockchain is a tree of nodes. Each node contains key information including, Number, Message, Hash, Nonce (a number), Timestamp and Previous Hash (The Hash and the Previous Hash values can be used to detect if the node is valid or has been tampered with). The importance of the implementation of Blockchain is that the computing is distributed and each node in the distribution has it's own unique copy of the complete Blockchain, this means that if one node in the distribution is corrupted then it can easily be detected as it's copy will differ from the others and it ca...