Blocks

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The Block is the main unit of the Filecoin blockchain, as is also the case with most other blockchains. Block messages are directly linked with Tipsets, which are groups of Block messages as detailed later on in this section. In the following we discuss the main structure of a Block message and the process of validating Block messages in the Filecoin blockchain.