Chains

Up to this point, you learned that the assets that are transferred between entities are recorded in transactions and that transactions persist in append-only blocks. When a block is finalized, the block header that was created is added to the block that includes the nonce and the hash of the previous block, linking the two. The new block is identified with its own hash or blockId, and is used by the subsequent block, again linking the two.

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