How to Use blockchain in a Sentence
blockchain
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The in-house token of the Ethereum blockchain has gained 72% this year.
—Vicky Ge Huang, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
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Lauren Goode: Ah, that must be where the blockchain comes in.
—WIRED, 18 Oct. 2023
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But the fact that much of the game is built around NFTs on the blockchain was somewhat obscured.
—WIRED, 26 Mar. 2023
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And for you, was blockchain just the next natural step?
—Justin Doom, Fortune Crypto, 16 Mar. 2023
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Ditto the second-largest coin, ether, which runs on the ethereum blockchain.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022
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Ether, the currency backed by the Ethereum blockchain — something like $640 at the time.
—Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2021
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That’s because blockchain is now filled up with NFTs and meme coins.
—Justin Ray, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
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In essence, blockchains can make sure promises will be kept.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Even so, that doesn’t mean the use of blockchain in AI governance is ready to take off.
—Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
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NFTs are most commonly based on the Ethereum blockchain.
—Dallas News, 2 June 2022
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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
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The price of ether, the native token underpinning the ethereum blockchain, fell to around $2,300 and has erased its gains for the year.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2024
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Phishing scams are also rampant in the blockchain world.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
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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
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Once a transaction is made, the blockchain remains an immutable record of it.
—Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
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The platform is built on the blockchain so ideas can be tracked and creators compensated.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2025
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Why Ether is so important Ether is the native token of the Ethereum blockchain network.
—Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 22 July 2024
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Digital bonds are like normal bonds, but hosted on the blockchain.
—Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
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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
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One of Blackbird’s early adopters is Jay Yu, a 22-year-old Stanford student who runs the college’s blockchain club.
—Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 31 July 2024
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Embedded in the case is a computer chip that identifies it and can connect to a blockchain.
—Christopher Helman, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
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Is there a deficit in transparency and trust that Web3 technologies, like blockchain, could address?
—François Candelon, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
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Utilizing blockchain technology, fans are able to own a ‘bit’ of these songs and share in their success.
—Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2025
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The whitepaper was written by the pseudnonymous creator of the bitcoin blockchain, Satoshi Nakamoto.
—Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2023
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The coin, which is built on the Solana blockchain, allows anyone anywhere in the world to funnel money directly to the US president.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2025
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The Chamber’s mission, according to its website, is to promote the use of digital assets and tech based on the blockchain.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2024
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Kwon was based in Singapore while running the blockchain platform Terraform Labs.
—Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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Additionally, the autonomous AIs open their crypto to be traded with humans, creating a functioning market on the blockchain for all.
—Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
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