Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images A block is the fundamental unit of a blockchain that contains a set of validated transactions and cryptographic links to previous blocks, forming an immutable record in ...

Blockchain systems are part of a trend that is moving the internet-of-information era into an internet-of-value era, where assets — and asset ownership — ...

The sequential number of a block of transactions in a blockchain. Block height 0 is the "genesis block," which is the first block. See blockchain and crypto glossary. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...

A blockchain is a kind of database invented in 2008 that stores and secures information in sequential blocks. Unlike the case with traditional databases, a blockchain’s contents are not kept on ...