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D++: Understanding Bitcoin Mining Simply

Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

CHAPTER

What Is Hashing and What Does It Do?

Hashing is an operation that takes something in and spits something out. What goes into a hash function is anything you like. I call it the kitchen sink because i can give it a number, a word, a letter, a phrase,. A sentence, the contents of an entire book. Now thisis used extensively in bit coin. It's used in key derivation. Its used in h d wallet derivation. And of course, it's used extensively in mining. But before i talk about how it's used in mining, i just want to make sure that we understand the basic concept of hashing.

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