How to Use blockchain in a Sentence

blockchain

noun
  • The in-house token of the Ethereum blockchain has gained 72% this year.
    Vicky Ge Huang, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Lauren Goode: Ah, that must be where the blockchain comes in.
    WIRED, 18 Oct. 2023
  • But the fact that much of the game is built around NFTs on the blockchain was somewhat obscured.
    WIRED, 26 Mar. 2023
  • And for you, was blockchain just the next natural step?
    Justin Doom, Fortune Crypto, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Ditto the second-largest coin, ether, which runs on the ethereum blockchain.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022
  • That’s because blockchain is now filled up with NFTs and meme coins.
    Justin Ray, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
  • Even so, that doesn’t mean the use of blockchain in AI governance is ready to take off.
    Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
  • NFTs are most commonly based on the Ethereum blockchain.
    Dallas News, 2 June 2022
  • The bizarre thing about the blockchain is that all of these tracers can watch this theft happen in real time.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The blockchain works like a ledger in which every bitcoin transaction is stored in what is called a block.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Once a transaction is made, the blockchain remains an immutable record of it.
    Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Digital bonds are like normal bonds, but hosted on the blockchain.
    Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Luke Dashjr is a developer of the Bitcoin Core, an app that runs 97 percent of the nodes making up the bitcoin blockchain.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Embedded in the case is a computer chip that identifies it and can connect to a blockchain.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Is there a deficit in transparency and trust that Web3 technologies, like blockchain, could address?
    François Candelon, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The whitepaper was written by the pseudnonymous creator of the bitcoin blockchain, Satoshi Nakamoto.
    Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Kwon was based in Singapore while running the blockchain platform Terraform Labs.
    Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Comparing the current version of the file against its record on the blockchain will show whether and how, exactly, a file has been altered, Crawforth said.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • So what’s your opinion on blockchain as a technology, and further plans does HSBC have in this area?
    Anna Tutova, Fortune Crypto, 17 June 2023
  • The snapshot measures withdrawals of the cryptocurrency ether and other tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.
    Vicky Ge Huang, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The coalition was formed in April 2021 as a way to fast-track a green application of blockchain technology to fashion.
    Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Driving most of the metaverse growth in this sector is advancement in AR-VR and blockchain technologies.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 July 2023
  • Validators are chosen to order blocks of transactions on the Ethereum blockchain.
    Allyson Versprille, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Scientists there measure everything from the blockchain to cloth face masks at a variety of scales.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • There are, of course, some potential challenges to consider with blockchain.
    Cassandra Ingram, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • The blockchain shows MoonPay paying high prices for the apes, and then transferring them to purported celebrity wallets for free.
    Elle Reeve and Samantha Guff, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Bitcoin’s backbone is a technology known as the blockchain.
    Sixteen Ramos, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The blockchain, like a massive, undeciphered corpus of an ancient language, hid a wealth of secrets in plain view.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2024
  • In fact, Hamas asked its donors to stop using cryptocurrency in April of 2023, due to the public nature of the transactions on blockchains and the risk of prosecution.
    WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The analyst emphasized the value that the project provides for the cryptocurrency/blockchain space.
    Charles Lloyd Bovaird Ii, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024

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