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Open utterances-bot opened 2 years ago

utterances-bot commented 2 years ago

On Mining :: Yet Another Random Memoir

When I first heard about Bitcoin back in 2015, the mining

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tromp commented 2 years ago

Miners are actually just trying to find a specific number called a nonce that when hashed together with the rest of the block header respects a specific constraint

What you're describing here is one particular Proof-of-Work algorithm called Hashcash. There are several others as I explain at

https://cryptorials.io/beyond-hashcash-proof-work-theres-mining-hashing/

trebaud commented 2 years ago

What you're describing here is one particular Proof-of-Work algorithm called Hashcash. There are several others as I explain at

Yes you are right! Here I focus only on Hashcash indeed. Thanks for sharing!