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D++: Understanding Bitcoin Mining Simply

Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

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What Is Shaw Two 56 for Bit Coin?

Shaw is a very creative acranum that stands for secure hash algorithm. And the 256 part denotes the length of the output. Now, 256 bits is a number that's so large it's actually incomprehensible to our human minds. This number is equivalent in decimal to around ten to the 70 seventh power. It doesn't actually sound that big, but it represents approximately all of the atoms in the known universe.

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