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Glossary

Cryptocurrency
The type of digital currency, the creation and control of which is based on cryptographic methods.
Blockchain
Continuous sequential chain of blocks containing information.
The bottom line is that they contain all the unfiltered information that is being deleted.
Thus, you can trace transactions at any stage and learn the whole story. There are copies of the blockers on different computers.

Block account is the basic principle of the crypto currency. But if the viability and future of the crypto currency is questionable, the technology of the blockade has proved itself well and will be used in the banking and commercial spheres. Maybe where else. For example, it is already used in the trade of Irish whiskey to protect against the control factor.

When we conduct some sort of transaction through a bank, we get a receipt, a printout, in some form information on this transaction. Of course, this information will be at the child's level, the bank itself has much more detailed information, not only is our account number listed, but also from which branch of the bank to which it's gone, etc.
But there is even more information than the bank employees, there is a channel for which money, IP, etc. went. A lot of technical information.

As I have already pointed out - money, these are numbers and they do not go anywhere from nowhere, there is always targetedness.

Block is the chain of blocks. In each block you will find all the exhaustive information on a specific transaction. But when someone sent money to someone and they reached the addressee, everyone is happy, all these blocks are not deleted, they are collected in a chain, their copies are saved. So you can trace the whole chain. This thread can be traced by any user. So all operations become transparent. And we know whom to deal with, and with whom we need to think.

Fork
It's much easier to start something out of nothing, but to take something else as a basis. That's about what happens. The code base of the software project is used to develop and create one. The basis of the new currency is Bitcoin. However, most forks do not invent anything of their own and are just a copy of Bitcoin.
Softfork
Soft change, little changes in the code, there are no any fundamental changes.
Hardfork
A fundamental change in the algorithm and code, new technologies are introduced.
SegWit
(Segregated Witness)
Part of the information is stored outside the blockchain, in separate files.