{"id":20355,"date":"2021-02-17T06:03:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=20355"},"modified":"2021-02-17T06:03:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:03:17","slug":"what-is-blockchain-akshatsanwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/what-is-blockchain-akshatsanwal\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Blockchain ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A\u00a0<strong>blockchain<\/strong>\u00a0is a digital record of transactions. The records, called blocks, are linked together in single list, called a chain. It is a distributed ledger of all transactions across a peer-to-peer network.<br>In simple terms, it is a database like MS Excel or Oracle, but it comes with upgraded features like &#8211; immutability, distributed Ledgers, consensus, enhanced security and fast settlements . It has the potential to grow to be a bedrock of the worldwide record-keeping systems.<br>Using this technology, participants do not need third party platforms to record transactions and also can confirm transactions without a need for a central\u00a0clearing authority. The first use case of Blockchain was Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0blockchain\u00a0is a digital record of transactions. The records, called blocks, are linked together in single list, called a chain. It is a distributed ledger of all transactions across a peer-to-peer&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6157],"class_list":["post-20355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training","tag-blockchain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20357,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20355\/revisions\/20357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}