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the data’s evolution is shared between entities. Here’s a handy For your own sake, protect your
If you want to include all the initiatives going on, use the
term “distributed ledgers”.
If you mean blockchains, where unrelated transactions
are bundled into blocks, which are chained together
using hashes and (in most cases) broadcast to all
participating entities for batch processing, use
“blockchains”.
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