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The journal of all confirmed Bitcoin transactions. The blockchain consists of a linked sequence of blocks and each block contains a list of transactions.—Please use [blockchain.info] for the eponymous UK-based company.

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Blockchain and user rights to ask for personal data removal

This seems impossible with a blockchain technology: we cannot remove past blocks without breaking the whole structure integrity. … How to deal with the legal right of data removal for users in a blockchain paradigm? …
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Does the 100+ GB blockchain database contain every transaction?

Does the 100+ GB blockchain database contain every transaction since the beginning, or only a digest of them? … thus this question: is the 100+ GB blockchain already the result of a space-saving lossy process? …
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Why is only the block header SHA256-hashed and not the whole block?

I read in many places that mining involves finding nonce such that SHA256(SHA256 (blockheader_including_nonce)) meets a specific criteria (0 bits...). Why is this hashing done only on the < 100 bytes …
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How does Bitcoin know if enough BTC are available for an account to allow a transaction?

Let's consider this simplified blockchain: BLOCK 108 address ddd111 received 2 BTC by mining block 108 BLOCK 109 address abc123 received 2 BTC by mining block 109 BLOCK 110 address xyz999 created with …
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