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Blockchain is most commonly considered the foundation for cryptocurrency \u2013 the usual form of payment by ransomware demands \u2013 because it is a method of recording information that makes it difficult to impossible to change, hack, or cheat records of transactions. It\u2019s a form of \u201cdistributed ledger\u201d that records every transaction to every participant\u2019s copy of that ledger. As a result, blockchain holds great potential to provide high levels of security for government agencies, provided they understand that transparency of transactions also is one of its characteristics.