Understanding Ethereum’s Uncles

This article will provide insight and information helping you understand Ethereum’s uncles, why they exist, and how their existence benefits the safety of the network. It contains some crypto-heavy language, but I’ve tried to keep it as simple as possible, clearly defining new words as we go along.
Everything is perceived from the perspective of the current block being mined on the blockchain. This is the way most of these terms were created because of the importance of the main chai