There's a fantastic overview of Bitcoin and BlockChain in a recent episode of the After On podcast. An interview with the co-founder of Coinbase, Fred Ehrsam - http://pca.st/episode/427e60d6-8f20-4231-8a6a-fe6f24077280 On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 at 17:56, David Lochrin <dloch...@key.net.au> wrote:
> On 17/12/2017 09:39, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > > The Hard Math Behind Bitcoin's Global Warming Problem > > https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-global-warming/ > > Does any Linker understand where the cryptographic "puzzle" fits in > Bitcoin architecture? Is it just an arbitrary task providing no > added-value, like digging holes then filling them up again? Or is it > solely to regulate the rate of bitcoin creation? > > SHA-256 mentioned in the article is a hashing algorithm, not an encryption > algorithm. > > I was part-way through Bernard's linked article when the power went out; > maybe too many people mining bitcoins? > > David L. > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > Link@mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
