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Which is not just a number on a computer, right?


ITs a number of lots of computers that use crypto algorithms to decide what the True ledger is.. So it cant be edited like a row in a DB can. But yes. you're right.


That's right. Bitcoin is represented via 10-minute sequential hashed blocks. You can't forge that currency without re-doing 13 years of computing work.




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