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Bitcoin was no doubt the first of its kind, the amalgamation of equally ingenious innovations that preceded its birth. Bitcoin can be said to be <em>a particular application</em> of <em>Blockchain, </em>the technology upon which the cryptocurrency sits upon. To break it down, blockchain is a ‘data structure’, and by data structure it is meant that it is an encapsulation of data and methods to operate on that data. The nearest known data structure analogised to Blockchain could be a Linked List.