Bitcoin Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes - v1.07, by Herong Yang
What Is Bitcoin Blockchain
This section describes what is Bitcoin Wallet.
Bitcoin Blockchain is the database that stores the all Bitcoin transactions in a list of sequentially chained blocks.
A block in the Bitcoin blockchain contains the following primary information:
- Timestamp - Specifies when this block was created.
- BlockHash - Acts as the fingerprint of this block.
- Previous BlockHash - Links to the previous block.
- Nonce - The salt value added to the block which resulted a valid blockhash.
- Transactions - A list of transactions recorded in this block.
Below is a rough illustration of Bitcoin blockchain (Blockhash is labeled as "Proof of work"):
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blockchain.com - Bitcoin Blockchain Explorer
blockchain.com - View Old Block
blockchain.com - View Transaction