Beginner's Guide to Hashing

Before diving into the subject of Bitcoin mining, we need to take a quick detour and learn about a certain concept that’s foundational to cryptocurrencies. In order to truly understand

In the previous lesson, I introduced the concept of hashing and relevant terms. Now, let’s learn how it works! Hashing is a mathematical operation that is easy to perform, but extremely difficult to

So far, in earlier lessons, you’ve learned what hashing is and how hashing works. But in order to truly understand just what these specialized programs do, it’s helpful to see actual examples in action! Let’s see

The main purpose of hashing is to verify the integrity of a piece of data. Since the hash generated is UNIQUE to the input data, it acts as a unique “fingerprint”