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Hashing and Hash Function in Cryptocurrency

Hashing means taking an input string of any length (input won’t have any fixed string length) and giving out an output string of a fixed length. The cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Altcoins use hashing. The transactions made in a cryptocurrency are taken as the input and the transactions are run through a hashing algorithm that gives an output of a fixed length. Bitcoin uses SHA-256 hashing algorithm.

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