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This allows old blocks to be compacted by cutting off branches of the tree, and the interior hashes don't need to be stored.

This reward is like gold miners using resources to add gold to circulation, but in this case, it's CPU time and electricity being used.

In this way, a chain of blocks is created, with each block representing a set of transactions that have been verified and accepted by the network.

Once the work is done, the block cannot be changed without redoing the work, which makes the system secure.

Each timestamp also includes the previous one, forming a chain that becomes stronger with each new addition.

One solution is to have a trusted central authority, called a mint, that checks every transaction to make sure no one is double-spending. But this means every transaction has to…

transactions would be verified using a secure computer system

Digital signatures can help with this, but the problem of double-spending still exists, which means spending the same money twice

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We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network.