#3 - More on Bitcoin: How does mining work? What are hash functions? And what is Proof of Work?

31/08/2022 20 min Temporada 1 Episodio 3

Listen "#3 - More on Bitcoin: How does mining work? What are hash functions? And what is Proof of Work?"

Episode Synopsis

In this third episode we'll dig more into the tech of Bitcoin. But for that, we'll need to talk briefly about cryptographic hash functions and how they work. Once done, we'll talk about mining, proof of work, chains of blocks, and mining pools!