The BitcoinBitcoin is a cryptocurrency. It operates without the need for a central authority like a central bank or a company,... Read More blockchainAs a distributed ledger technology (DLT), a blockchain is a digital ledger that can create an immutable record of transactions.... Read More is a shared public ledgerA shared public ledger is a digital record of all cryptocurrency transactions maintained by a network of computers, each with... Read More that records all bitcoinOne bitcoin is a unit of the virtual currency called Bitcoin. BTC is the ticker symbol for Bitcoin, and refers... Read More transactions. It is constantly growing as “completed” blocks are added to the blockchain with a new set of recordings. The data structure of each blockA block is a specific type of construct in a blockchain that stores transactional information blocks typically contain transaction information... Read More in a blockchain contains a cryptographic hashA hash is a fixed-length code representing any length of words, messages, or data generated by a hashing algorithm. In... Read More of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction dataTransaction data is information that is stored on the blockchain and represents a record of a transaction. This data can... Read More. By design, the Bitcoin blockchain is resistant to data modification.
