From 83be54bab7ce7de568a22f6903d693f7b8ae5378 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "drusselloctal@gmail.com" Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 13:53:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Made changes to ch07.asciidoc --- ch07.asciidoc | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ch07.asciidoc b/ch07.asciidoc index 497539fb..fbdd317b 100644 --- a/ch07.asciidoc +++ b/ch07.asciidoc @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ A block is a container data structure that aggregates transactions for inclusion [[block_header]] === Block Header -The block header consists of three sets of block metadata. First, there is a reference to a previous block hash, which connects this block to the previous block in the blockchain. The second set of metadata, namely the _difficulty_, _timestamp_, and _nonce_, relate to the mining competition, as detailed in <>. The third piece of metadata is the merkle tree root, a data structure used to efficiently summarize all the transactions in the block. +The block header consists of three sets of block metadata. First, there is a reference to a previous block hash, which connects this block to the previous block in the blockchain. The second set of metadata, namely the _difficulty_, _timestamp_, and _nonce_, relate to the mining competition, as detailed in <>. The third piece of metadata is the merkle tree root, a data structure used to efficiently summarize all the transactions in the block. <> describes the structure of a block header. + [[block_header_structure_ch07]] .The structure of the block header