When transactions are made, timestamps, source and destination are added to a block that will be mined.
In your future article try to explain the block as a digital page of data/transactions in a distributed ledger book. Simplify mining to just finding empty digital pages on which digital transactions will be written.
(This exp would be for people who have no tech experience/knowledge in this area)
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