Blockchain as a data structure. 

Blockchain as a data structure. 

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Nowadays, blockchain is becoming a synonym for distributed ledger technology. However, blockchain is only one of the specializations in the field and is currently well-covered in existing literature, but mostly from a cryptographic point of view. Besides blockchain technology, a new paradigm is gaining momentum: directed acyclic graphs. The contrib...

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... consists of ordered units called blocks [7]. Blocks contain headers and transactions, as depicted in Fig- ure 1. Each block header, amongst other metadata, contains a reference to its predecessor in the form of the predecessor's hash. The initial state is hard-coded in the first block called the genesis block. Unlike other blocks, the genesis block has no ...

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