In this episode of “Bitcoin, Explained,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost go back to Bitcoin basics. They explain one of the most fundamental building blocks in all of Bitcoin: hash functions ...

This is an opinion editorial by Pierre Gildenhuys, the co-founder of a Hong Kong-based social environment tech startup. Proof-of-work is the consensus mechanism that the Bitcoin protocol uses. On a ...

Proof of Work (PoW) is a consensus mechanism where miners use computing and compete to solve mathematical puzzles. When a puzzle is solved, transaction data is validated and added to the network, and ...

Hash rate, sometimes referred to as hashrate, is a measure of the computing power on a cryptocurrency network that serves as a key security indicator. It measures the total computational power used by ...

The consensus method is arguably the most crucial building block of distributed ledger networks because it defines how individuals reach agreement in a global and permissionless system. A key ...

A recently published journal article by researchers at BTQ, a startup working to build blockchain technology that can withstand attacks from quantum computers, has proposed an alternative to the Proof ...

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New D-Wave research paper, “Blockchain with Proof of Quantum Work,” presents a novel blockchain architecture that leverages the company’s quantum supremacy achievement Research shows D-Wave’s quantum ...