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 ...

Conceived by the enigmatic figure known as Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin represents a monumental technological breakthrough, introducing the world to a decentralized cryptocurrency that operates ...

Learn how the nonce in Bitcoin's blockchain affects mining. Discover its role, importance, and how it influences the mining ...

Learn how Bitcoin mining works, including how transactions are validated, block rewards, energy use, and why miners play a key role in securing the network.

Miners provide a last line of defense for securing the Bitcoin network against brute-force attacks from malicious actors who might accumulate a majority of SHA-256 hash rate. The more hashing power is ...

Amid a bear period for bitcoin, the hash rate and difficulty of mining new coins has reached an all-time high, presenting interesting new challenges and opportunities as mining companies, pools and ...

Hash functions are a one-way mathematical problem. If a person has the resulting hash, it is impossible to convert it back to the original data. In this episode of “Bitcoin, Explained,” hosts Aaron ...