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@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ The primary identifier of a block
is its cryptographic hash, a commitment made by hashing the
block header twice through the SHA256 algorithm. The resulting 32-byte
hash is called the _block hash_ but is more accurately the _block header
hash_, pass:[<span role="keep-together">because only the block header is
hash_, pass:[<span class="keep-together">because only the block header is
used to compute it. For example,</span>]
+000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f+ is
the block hash of the first block on Bitcoin's blockchain. The block hash
@ -133,9 +133,9 @@ separate database table as part of the block's metadata, to facilitate
indexing and faster retrieval of blocks from disk.
A second way to identify a block is by its position in the blockchain,
called the pass:[<span role="keep-together"><em>block height</em>. The
called the pass:[<span class="keep-together"><em>block height</em>. The
genesis block is at block height 0 (zero) and is the</span>]
pass:[<span role="keep-together">same block that was previously
pass:[<span class="keep-together">same block that was previously
referenced by the following block hash</span>]
+000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f+. A
block can thus be identified in two ways: by referencing the block hash