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Blockchain technology came into existence when a paper titled <strong>“Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system”</strong> was announced by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. However, the word “blockchain” was never used in the paper specifically. The paper discusses a <strong>“peer-to-peer version of electronic cash”</strong> where network adds timestamps to the transactions by hashing them into a chain of hash-based proof-of-work.