It used to be that bitcoin mining was a community affair, but the process of confirming bitcoin transactions now requires an immense amount of hashing power specific to the SHA-256 mining algorithm.

We hear plenty of talk of how public blockchains are going to change the world, but to function on a global scale, a shared public ledger needs a functional, efficient and secure consensus algorithm.

An internet of money. That's the dream. The trouble is: we need a way ensuring that the people can be trusted, that this vast network of machines can reliably keep track of our money, that no one can ...

The logic embodied in all the nodes of a blockchain that ensures the chain's integrity. Because there is no central authority in a blockchain, the consensus mechanism ensures that at least 50% of the ...

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