A blockchain is a digital ledger of transactions that is replicated and distributed across a large network of computer systems, or nodes, to record and secure information. Each block in the blockchain ...

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THE BLOCKCHAIN, the technology that underlies bitcoin, has yet to live up to the hype surrounding it. Promising blockchain-based projects, such as a land registry in Honduras, have fallen short of ...

(1) The distinction between a main Layer 1 blockchain such as Bitcoin and Ethereum and a Layer 2 blockchain such as rollup chain. A third layer separates even more functions. See Layer 1 blockchain, ...

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies have entered the mainstream discourse, but they’ve also been joined by a concept that is widely circulated, but poorly understood: “the blockchain” or ...