Putting Away The Page
Before the page is put away in the folder, it is sealed with a unique key that everyone in the network agrees upon so that no one can make changes. By sealing it with encryption, no one can make any changes to it. This sealing of the page is the crux of this method.
Blockchain can be viewed in the following way: Think of a single page as a Block of transactions. The folder is the Chain of pages (Blocks).
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