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Blockchain definition check: 12 terms everyone confuses
Coin, token, ledger, layer — the words get used interchangeably all the time. They should not be.

Coin, token, ledger, layer — the words get used interchangeably all the time. They should not be.

A Merkle tree turns thousands of transactions into one short root hash. Here is how blocks use it to prove their contents, why proofs stay small, and where the structure shows up outside crypto.

A distributed ledger is just three moving parts: a chain of records, computers holding copies, and a rule for agreeing on the next one. Here is what each part does, and what it does not guarantee.

Strip away the jargon: a blockchain is a shared record book that thousands of computers keep copies of, and that is what makes it hard to quietly rewrite.