Public Versus Permissioned Blockchains and their Providers

In chapter 3 through chapter 5, I explained the core concepts and terminology of a blockchain. In the previous chapter, I combined everything we had learned up to that point into a brief summary. Then, taking a step-by-step approach, I mapped certain terminology to the actual steps of the data processing flow in a blockchain and the layered architecture behind it. I described how transactions can be submitted, the differences between structured and unstructured data, how single transactions are combined into a block and a block's structure, and explained how the process of broadcasting and verifying blocks throughout the whole network works.

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