Instantiation: create a Genesis block and start chaining subsequent blocks.

– Production instance: main net
– Test nets.
– Your own private nets

(This are all different, independent ledgers)

Fork:
– The ledger diverges from the same genesis block into 2 new protocols.
– Since the value of a net depend on the #of nodes the net looses value.

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