-**_What is a Fork?_** Occasionally two blocks are created around the same time. This temporarily creates a one-block fork, where either if the current blocks could be the "real" one. Every once in a while, a fork might expand to become two blocks, three blocks, or even four blocks long, but pretty quickly one side of the fork is determined to be the real one, and the other is "orphaned". This is part of the stochastic process of block creation, and demonstrates why several blocks must be built atop a block before it can be considered truly trustworthy and non-repudiable.
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