# kaal:claim:4021599-002

**Claim.** No truly uniform definition of blockchain technology exists; commentators variously describe it as a giant distributed immutable spreadsheet for transactions or by enumerating central elements such as decentralization, immutability, and cryptographic verification.

**Type.** definitional  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> No truly uniform definition exists for blockchain technology. Some refer to it as a giant worldwide, distributed, immutable "google spreadsheet" for transactions.1

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Securities Versus Utility Tokens* (2022), I. Introduction, page 3

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Securities Versus Utility Tokens (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4021599

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**Topics.** blockchain, decentralization, consensus-and-security, citation-and-knowledge

**Keywords.** blockchain-definition, nomenclature, distributed-ledger, cryptographic-verification

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