# Distributed Ledgers

A blockchain is a distributed ledger. Distributed ledger technology is notoriously known as a blockchain. A blockchain is a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to change, hack, or cheat the history— *data is highly immutable and encrypted.* 

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*Information on a blockchain gets recorded in the form of '**inputs**' known as transactions*
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