A blockchainAs a distributed ledger technology (DLT), a blockchain is a digital ledger that can create an immutable record of transactions.... Read More ledger is a digital ledgerA digital ledger is an online record of transactions. The digital ledger tracks financial or other data. Read More of cryptocurrencyCryptocurrency is decentralized digital currency secured by cryptography. Cryptocurrency utilizes cryptographic protocols to record ownership and prevent counterfeits (when ownership... Read More transactions organized into blocks. 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 ledger 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.
