Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

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Cryptographic Hash Functions

Hash Function

  • Takes any string as input
  • Fixed-size output (we'll use 256 bits)
  • efficiently computable

Security properties:

  • Collision-free
  • Hiding
  • Puzzle-friendly