Cryptocurrency has undeniably transformed the financial landscape, with Bitcoin and Litecoin emerging as trailblazers in the realm of decentralized digital currencies. At the heart of these blockchain ...

Cryptographic hash functions are crucial in ensuring the security and integrity of information across diverse industries. They protect sensitive financial transactions in banking, verify data ...

The shift has already started; finance is moving onto the blockchain, leveraging the decentralization and disintermediation benefits of the technology’s architecture. Assets of all kinds are being ...

Understanding Bitcoin is a one-way hash function should make sense because a hash function cannot be reversed. Once you understand that, it is hard to go back to thinking otherwise. The secure hash ...

Intel this week announced details of its new Blockscale ASIC chip designed specifically for more efficient blockchain computing than CPUs or GPUs. It first said it was making such a chip just two ...

Imagine taking a block of data and turning it into a unique string of characters. Like giving it a digital nickname that never changes (unless the data does!). That’s a hash. Whether the original data ...

Intel Corp. today announced plans to launch a blockchain accelerator chip later this year that will be capable of running an algorithm commonly used for bitcoin mining. The chip was created by a ...

Ever wonder how long it would take to mine a block into the Bitcoin blockchain by hand? Well, wonder no longer because blogger Ken Shirriff has done the work for you with a pencil and paper. In an ...