Block Confirmation
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
When a new block of information has been verified for addition onto the blockchain, it has one confirmation. Each additional blocks added onto the blockchain gives the referenced block another additional confirmation.
The further back a block is on the blockchain, the more costly it becomes to reverse it (through malicious means). Block confirmation is typically used by crypto exchanges to consider a cryptocurrency transaction final to protect themselves against bad actors who aim to reverse transactions after depositing (known as double spending).
Related Terms
Trustless
Entirely verifiable, without needing to trust or assume an action is done completely and in good faith.
Non-custodial
It is a decentralized type-of-wallet, where the users owns its private keys.
Transaction Fee
A payment to the network for performing a transaction to be recorded on the blockchain.
Salt (cryptography)
In cryptography, a salt is the additional random input that is added to password or passphrase to make the password hash unique. It prevents from the hashed output password to be cracked so easily by the hacker.
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