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Feb 23, 2021

BitTorrent Token - BTT

About the project:

BitTorrent Token (BTT) was launched in early 2019 by the BitTorrent Company whose owner is Justin Sun. BTT was aimed to be a Decentralized file sharing protocol via a vast peer to peer (P2P) network on the internet.

BTT was launched on the Tron Blockchain. Tron is also owned by Justin Sun. (Know more about Tron - TRX coin here)

Anyone who uses the file sharing protocol enabled by Bittorrent company can get BTT as reward or fee for participating in the network.

BitTorrent Token Logo Image

BitTorrent Token Logo

The following are some use cases of BTT:

  • We can spend BTT for getting higher download speeds in the uTorrent or BitTorrent clients. These are open source software applications which are used for free content sharing over the internet using P2P.
  • We can receive BTT for providing a piece of file which is required by another user somewhere on the internet. This is usually called as seeding in Bittorrent clients.
  • DLive and BitTorrent File System are also a part of the BTT Protocol and can be used to spend or receive BTT Tokens.

(I will explain more details in next week's post "How to earn the BTT Freely". Bookmark this site if interested)

Ticker Symbol for BitTorrent Token is "BTT"

Here is a Live Chart of Trading rates for Buying and Selling BTT in Crypto Markets:


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Feb 19, 2021

Bitcoin Cash - BCH & Bitcoin Gold - BTG

BitCoin Cash - BCH

Bitcoin Cash is a direct hard fork from Bitcoin. It was created in the year 2017.

Goals:

  • The aim of Bitcoin Cash is to become a provide a transactional service which is fast and reliable
  • Be a network with low transaction fee than bitcoin.
  • Provide more privacy to users of Bitcoin Cash.
  • Peer to peer electronic system

Ticker Symbol for Bitcoin Cash is "BCH"

Bitcoin Cash Logo

Soon after it went live, the price of each bitcoin cash coin pumped significantly and had grown very swiftly to be a dominating ALT Coin in the Crypto Markets.

One major difference and requirement for existence of BCH is that the size of each block in the Blockchain of BTC is of 1 MB. A part of the community felt this is quite low and decided to fork a new coin with increased block size so that more number of transactions can be stored in each block.

Each block in BCH network is 32 Mega Bytes in size.

In 2018, a new part of Bitcoin Cash network was introduced with name "Bitcoin SV".

Here is a Live Chart of Trading rates for Buying and Selling BCH:

BitCoin Gold - BTG

Bitcoin Gold is a direct hard fork from Bitcoin. It was also created in the year 2017 (October).

Goals:

  • The aim of Bitcoin Gold is to restore the independence and the decentralization factor to its original value (which was cosidered to be lost by Bitcoin gold community)
  • Be a network with which coins can be mined feasibly when compared to BTC. (Know more about Mining in this article)
  • Provide the chance and enable all the individuals to mine using the Graphics Processing Unit.
  • Peer to peer electronic cash system

Ticker Symbol for Bitcoin Gold is "BTG"

Bitcoin Gold Logo Image
Bitcoin Gold Logo
As we know, Bitcoin uses SHA 256 Algorithm as Proof of Work for validating the mining. Specialised ASIC hardware (mining rigs) had been manufactured and corporates built warehouses with huge investment just for mining Bitcoins.

This made hard for individual users for earning bitcoins because the mining ware houses contribute humongous Computational Power so that common man with normal computer won't stand a chance to compete with them.

Therefore, Bitcoin gold was created by modifying the Mining Algorithm from tradittional SHA 256 to "Equihash". This would make all those mining warehouses less efficient because equihash can be computed with normal GPU processing power itself thereby removing the advantage for mining corporates and restoring the true decentralization in the network.

Here is a Live Chart of Trading rates for Buying and Selling BTG:

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Feb 9, 2021

What is Bitcoin Mining ? How Does BTC Mining Work ?

Bitcoin Mining is the process through which the Bitcoin transactions will be validated or verified. This could be done by anyone who has processing power for computation (like a computer or dedicated hardware for mining).

Each transaction will have some transaction fee depending upon the transacted amount. Many transactions are put into a block and it is validated by miners. Whoever validates the block first, that miner will get the total fee of all transactions as a reward for mining the block successfully.

Then, that block is added to the Blockchain ledger. This process will continue and blocks will be mined and added to Blockchain.

Picture of Bitcoin Mining Rigs
Mining Rigs

In order to mine a block, a miner has to solve the cryptographic puzzle (finding a hash below the target) and that miner has to be the first one to solve the puzzle. This is known as Proof of Work (PoW).

So, one must possess enormous capacity of computational processing power and must be extremely lucky for successfully mining a BTC Block !

As we know the bitcoins hold a high market value in Cryptocurrency domain, the competition among miners to mine the block is extremely high.

Some facts about mining :

  • Dedicated hardware with heavy computation power has been introduced just for the sake of bitcoin mining. These are called as Mining Rigs
  • Mining concept is fundamentally based on Cryptography.
  • Bitcoin Mining requires extensive computational power and electricity. Majority of the bitcoins are being mined in China.
  • As of now,  for every 10 minutes, a new block is being mined and added to the bitcoin ledger blockchain.

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Feb 7, 2021

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto ? The Man Behind Bitcoin !

Nobody knows the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto !

It was the username/alias of the leading member(or members) of online community which developed the first crypto currencyBITCOIN. Satoshi Nakamoto is the founder of Bitcoin. 

Some facts of Satoshi Nakamoto:

  • The fundamental constituent of bitcoin in terms of currency value is Satoshi.

For Dollars $ -- cents
 For Bitcoins -- Satoshi

  • It is unclear whether satoshi nakamoto is a single person or a group of persons.

  • Satoshi Nakamoto is author of the first paper on Bitcoin.

  • Satoshi Nakamoto developed the first Blockchain database.

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Jan 9, 2021

What is a BlockChain ? Block Chain Technology Explained !

Block + Chain  = A Chain of Blocks 

Blockchain is a continuous chain of blocks which are linked together sequentially. For understanding purpose consider the trains. All the bogies are blocks and the train itself is the blockchain. Just like the bogies of train are connected to one another, all the blocks are linked with a Hash. Biggest use-case of a blockchain is with Cryptocurrency / Bitcoin.

In every block, there will be some fields which hold respective data corresponding to the field. 

Fields in a Block:

  1. Index
  2. Time Stamp
  3. Previous Hash
  4. Hash
  5. Data

If a new block is to be added to the chain, then it must hold the hash value of the last added block in the chain. Then this new block's hash value is copied to the next new block that will be added to the chain after some time.

A new block is added to the existing chain only if a miner validates that block using a process called Mining. Anyone on the internet can do mining and earn bitcoins (BTC). (Know more about the Mining process in this article)

In Computer Science field, this is familiar and follows the same principle of a Linked List Data Structure. 

A Blockchain is decentralized, which means there won’t be any governing authority which can hold ultimate rights over the data. Everybody on the Internet can look up the data in the Blockchain whenever they want. 

Blockchain acts as a distributed ledger for Bitcoin transactions. 

The concept was first introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto. Know more details about this mysterious man in next post.


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What is CryptoCurrency ? Everything you need to know about Crypto, Blockchain and Trading.

 What is Cryptocurrency?

Cryptocurrency is a virtual form of money which cannot exist physically. All the transactions can happen only on the internet. Users will have a wallet in which the crypto coins are stored securely and users can transfer or receive coins through peer to peer mechanism (without any mediator in between). All they transactions are registered on a digital ledger called Blockchain.

Generally, the money related transactions are made through banks acting as mediators between sender and receiver. There is no such system in Cryptocurrency transactions. They follow a Peer to Peer mechanism of protocol. 

Cryptocurrency is Decentralized system, which means all the users have complete rights over their data. 

The most popular and first cryptocurrency that came into existence is Bitcoin (Know more about Bitcoin here)

But what exactly is the use of cryptocurrency?

The most popular reason is that the transactions are anonymous. We can’t know the personal details of sender or receiver of bitcoins. Only things which are visible to everyone on the block chain are: Public keys, transaction amount and transaction ID.

How do the Cryptocurrencies come into existence ?

All the coins (including Bitcoins / btc or other ALT Coins) are created by Mining. (Check this article for more about Mining)

Sounds confusing? Don’t worry it will be explained in later articles. Just keep gaining the knowledge. Jump to next post.


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Dec 24, 2020

DOGE Coin

About the Project:

DogeCoin was founded in the year 2013 by some software engineers. Doge coin is based on the famous internet meme of Doge. The Doge meme consists of a dog which is of type Shiba Inu.

Creators of this Dogecoin digital currency are as follows

  • Billy Markus from USA
  • Jackson Palmer from  Australia

Doge Coin Logo Image
DogeCoin Logo

Ticker Symbol for DogeCoin in exchange platforms is "DOGE"

Some Facts of DOGE:

  • It was intended to a fun act of creating a Cryptocurrency out a popular meme.
  • After Doge went live online, millions of users visited and researched about it within a short period of time.
  • Doge was considered to be as Internet Currency.
  • In December-2013 Doge coins were stolen from a wallet provider and millions of coins were lost from numerous users. This caused a negative impact and people of internet & community of Dogecoin banded together and started donating money to make up for the stolen doge coins. 
  • Doge coin was forked from LITECOIN - LTC

Since it has been forked from LTC, the Proof of Work(PoW) Algorithm will be "Scrypt" (same as that of LTC). Each new block will take around 1 minute for getting validated on the network of doge transactions.

The total market supply of Dogecoins is unlimited. There exists no limit or capped amount at which new doges are not produced anymore. Doge can be used for rewarding the users who share the content you like on Reddit or Twitter Platforms.

Elon Musk Tweeted (Yes, you read it correct, its really Elon Musk) about Dogecoin which created a huge hype its market and made the price of doge to spike up to its all time high value. Users of social media platforms like, Twitter, Reddit and TikTok started trending about DogeCoin in order to make it value to raise above the 1$ (USD) mark.

Here is a Live Chart of Trading rates for Buying and Selling DOGE:


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Dec 4, 2020

Movie Bloc - MBL

About the Project:

MovieBloc is a entertainment project which aims to decentralize the Theatre and Home Screening of movies and other entertainment based video content.

Moviebloc was founded in the year 2019 and relatively new addition into the market when compared to other popular and dominating ALT Coins.

MovieBloc Logo Image
MovieBloc Logo

Key Facts:

  • Ticker Symbol of Movie Bloc is "MBL"
  • Moviebloc is a Korean Project
  • Over 100 movies have been screened on MovieBloc platform and anyone can watch all the movies or serials for free on the open source Moviebloc.

Content creators will get revenue and share from MBL. Contributors who volunteer to improve the platform will also get rewarded. This includes adding subtitles, correcting the metadata of content or promoting & marketing etc...

Many analysts believe MBL has good potential in market because of its new age project. Many OTT or Content Streaming Services have been coming along since the last 2 years. These platforms have witnessed extreme business and great customer satisfaction and convenience had been given as feedback.

Based on the trends & data of OTT legends like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, I personally feel that MovieBloc will do great in the next 5 years if the project receives more content globally from various countries. 

You can visit the free MovieBloc Streaming service here

MBL can be traded as well in the Crypto Market. As of now, the coin has very little market value.

Here is a Live Chart of Trading rates for Buying and Selling MBL


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Nov 21, 2020

LiteCoin - LTC

LiteCoin is aimed to be a true alternative to the BitCoin. Litecoin was initially released via Github in 2011, which makes it one of the oldest ALT Coins available in Crypto Markets.

Litecoin and Bitcoin are almost similar and they both have very slight differences:

  1. Proof of Work(PoW) Algorithm is different for these. In BTC, SHA 256 Algorithm is used, whereas in Litecoin, a memory-hard function named  "Scrypt" is used as validation for Proof of Work.
  2. Litecoin transactions are processed much faster than Bitcoin. It takes around 2 minutes & 30 seconds for generating a new block for Litecoin. In the case of BTC, the average time required to add a new block into the Blockchain is around 10 Minutes.

Litecoin Logo Image
LiteCoin Logo

Ticker Symbol for Lite Coin is LTC in Crypto Trading Markets.

LTC enjoyed its all time peak price during the period December-2017 to January-2018. Looking at the current trend, in the coming months it might reach a new all time high (not an advice, just an estimated forecast).

Here is a Live Chart of Trading rates for Buying and Selling LTC:


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Nov 14, 2020

Tron - TRX

Tron is a Cryptocurrency whose main goal is to provide a decentralized Operating System that is Open Source and runs on top of a Blockchain.

Tron was founded by Justin Sun. He also acquired the Bittorrent company.

Tron Logo Image

Tron Logo

Ticker Symbol for Tron is "TRX " in Crypto Market Trading Platforms.

  • Tron is the most popular blockchain for building Dapps (Decentralized Apps)
  • Upon Tron's blockchain, there are many other ALT Coins and Tokens running on top of it. Bittorrent Token is a famous example of it.

  • TRX witnessed its all time high Price in January - 2018

  • Tron focuses primarily on the domain of Content Sharing & Entertainment.

Decentralized Streaming Services like DLive and other Dapp Stores / Music sites make use of Tron's Blockchain.

Here is a Live Chart of Trading rates for Buying and Selling TRX:


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Oct 24, 2020

Tether - USDT

Tether is extensively used in Crypto markets as an alternative for US Dollar. All the Trading Platforms would facilitate the exchange market with Tether Pairing along with Bitcoin Pairings.

Tether is originally designed to be always equal to 1$ (USD). Therefore, Tether is obviously a Stable Coin.

Ticker Symbol in Market for Tether is "USDT" (stands for US Dollar Tether).

Tether Logo Image

It successfully managed its price balanced on par with 1USD always (with insignificant and negligible fluctuations in price).

Tether was developed by Tether Limited Company and it had faced many legal issues by US Government due to various reasons.

You can see the Live Chart for Tether maintaining a constant value fixed to the price of USD:


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Oct 2, 2020

Ripple - XRP





XRP Symbol image

Ripple is another old and well known prevailing ALT Coin. It is intended for designing a settlement system with the help of a Blockchain.

Ripple uses Distributed and Open source networks just like all other Cryptocurrencies. However Ripple is different from the norm in its protocol. Ripple is a Payment Protocol.

Ticker Symbol in Trading Market for Ripple is XRP

Ripple logo image


Though Ripple entered into the market in 2013, its price had been maintained at rock bottom for more than 4 years until it saw an all time peak of 1XRP=3$+ in January - 2018


This is the Live Chart for Trading Pair of XRP and USD in Crypto Market:



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Sep 27, 2020

DASH - Digital Cash

Dash is one of the oldest Cryptocurrencies that came into existence after the Bitcoin. DASH coin has some history associated with it.

In 2014, a man named Evan Duffield introduced a new coin with name "XCoin". This Xcoin is forked from BTC and follows the Bitcoin Protocol.

Later, it was named as "DarkCoin" because of the fact that it had been used extensively in the dark net's anonymous market transactions.

Finally in 2015, It was again renamed to "DASH" and settled as an ALT Coin in the Crypto Trade market.

DASH Coin logo image
Dash Coin Logo


Dash Stands for  Digital Cash

Ticker Symbol for Digital Cash Coin is "DASH" itself.

Dash coin reached its all time high price in March - 2017 as of now.

Here is a Live Chart for Crypto Market Exchange rate of DASH - USD:



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Sep 3, 2020

Ethereum - ETH

Ethereum is introduced practically in the year 2015 and has been used extensively by crypto traders. It is the 2nd most widely accepted and used Cryptocurrency after Bitcoin.

Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum enables to run derivatives on top of its Blockchain.

Ethereum stands well above other ALT Coins in terms of market price.

Icon for ETH Image
Icon for ETHEREUM

In 2016, Ethereum community decided to hard fork into a new derivative due to a flaw in implementation. The original ethereum blockchain continued to grow by the name Ethereum Classic.

Ticker Symbol for Ethereum is ETH

ETH is available for buying or selling in almost all the trading platforms of crypto. Good number of coin pairs are also available for exchanging with ETH.

Here is a live chart of market price for trading Ethereum & USD: 



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Aug 30, 2020

Trading with Cryptocurrencies. Top Trading Platforms for Bitcoins & ALT Coins

Do you want to know about the methods to start earning passive income through Cryptocurrency ?

Do you want to exchange your Bitcoins into rising ALT Coins or Stable Coins ?

Or do you simply want to buy some crypto with normal FIAT currency? 

Your answer for all the above questions is same - Trading Platforms for Crypto !

There are many coin exchange platforms that have been introduced since the roar of BTC Price in recent years. We can sign up to those websites free of cost and start investing or exchanging between the numerous coin pairs in the market.

NOTE: This is not Financial Advice. This is just for the purpose providing information !!

The following are some good Crypto Trading Platforms:

 1) Binance

  • Binance is almost unanimously the most used and top rated trading platform available as of now.
  • Binance has its own coin offering BNB
  • Huge number of binance users contribute to good circulating supply in all coins.
  • Staking is available and on some coins/tokens.

Visit Website - https://www.binance.com/en

2) MXC

  • Mxc is also widely used (not as popular as Binance though).
  • This website offers some rare and newly introduced coins for trading.
  • Provides good Graphical User Interface for Visualization of graphs and market trends. 
  • Staking available for some coins/tokens.

Visit Website - https://www.mxc.com/

3) CoinBase

  • If you are beginner and you only want to start it simple with only the popular coins, then Coinbase might suit you. 
  • Limited and only wide known coins are offered for exchanging. 
  • Simple Interface. Mobile app available.
  • Advanced traders would not use coinbase much.

Visit Website - https://www.coinbase.com/

4) WazirX (Especially for India)

  • WazirX is a great platform for Indian users because it offers trading in INR directly. Conversion charges can be avoided for Indian users. 
  • WazirX is a part of Binance and can transfer your assets between these two.
  • Staking not available.

Visit Website - https://wazirx.com/


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Aug 17, 2020

What is BitCoin ? Everything You Need To Know About BitCoins

BITCOIN -The origin of a new era in Digital Currency / CryptoCurrency !

Bitcoins are a form of virtual currency or CryptoCurrency which possess a high market value as of now. This is a new form of exchange transactions without the necessity of physical coins or notes. Everything is virtual and decentralized.

Unlike normal FIAT currency, we don't need a mediator or governing authority (like bank) for approving the transactions. Instead, all the bitcoin transactions are validated by Miners and every transaction details are stored in a distributed ledger called BlockChain.

This concept was first proposed and implemented by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. (Know more about Satoshi Nakamoto here)

Bitcoin Logo Image
Bitcoin Logo (Source : Wikipedia)

This Blockchain ledger is distributed / decentralized, in the sense : anyone on the internet can look up the ledger and its transactions at any time. This blockchain is stored in many computers (called Nodes in Bitcoin jargon) and it is fault tolerant with the help of an efficient consensus protocol.

New Bitcoins are generated through a process called Mining.

Bitcoins can be used for online transactions and Trading. In recent times, many people have been earning passive income with bitcoins and it has become quite lucrative ! 

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Jun 30, 2020

Stellar - XLM (Stellar Lumens)

Network of Stellar was introduced in 2015. Over 4 billion transactions generated by almost 4 million person users have been recorded ever since. Stellar was selected by major corporations and businesses as tiny as solitary startups to transfer capital and increase brand awareness.

Everything is kept in harmony by a special application named the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP). There are several methods to get acceptance in a decentralized framework. The groundbreaking proof-of-work technique of Bitcoin was the first and has always been the most popular.

Yet proof-of-work provided time for feedback, just like several other initial versions. While being customizable, quick, and extremely efficient in performance, SCP aims to be greater & better.

Stellar Logo Image
Stellar Logo

Ticker Symbol for Stellar in Crypto Markets is "XLM"

Stellar Lumens are not created or rewarded by that of the algorithm throughout time, unlike the other ALT Coins of many other Blockchain systems. Rather, once the Stellar network came online, 100 billion lumens have been produced, and for the first Five years of Stellar's life, the quantity of lumens actually raised by One percent per annum, through its in built model.

Here is a Live Chart of Trading rates for Buying and Selling XLM:


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Jun 1, 2020

How to Earn Money with Cryptocurrency & Bitcoins

Earning money with Bitcoins and ALT Coins has become quite popular in recent years and many people are making significant amount of passive income thorough this field.

The following are the ways you can earn some income using Cyrptocurrencies.


1) Trading

Trading is the most popular way to earn money using Cryptocurrency. There are many exchange platforms where you can buy or sell coins with FIAT currency or exchange directly with other crypto coins or tokens.

See this Post for detailed overview of these Trading Platforms

NOTE : This is not any financial or Trading advice, This is just for informative purpose.


2) Mining 

Through Mining, we can directly earn coins without any trading platform. If a miner validates any block successfully, then the reward of that block is paid to the miner. then that can be exchanged into normal FIAT currency or it can be loaded to any trading platform for exchanging to other coins.

Mining can be of 2 types:

Individual Mining - A sole person or any individual will mine in their house with a simple mining rig or a Graphics Processing hardware and tries to validate the blocks of respective Blockchains.

This is very inefficient because it is highly impossible to mine a block with such little computation processing power.

Mining Pools - Many Individual miners/users combine together and form a pool and try to find the value of SHA 256 Hash that falls below the target.

Mining pool services are offered by some websites. Users can sign up and start mining. The work will be distributed among all the individual miners.

If someone in the pool finds the required hash meaning that the block has been mined successfully, then the reward will be split to all users in the pool prportionately to the processing power they contributed to the pool.


3) Other Ways

  • Giveaways by newly introduced coins or token projects
  • Offers on trading Platforms as loyalty reward programs



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May 31, 2020

Cosmos - ATOM

Cosmos is a Cryptocurrency project which: in kind of a broad sense, Cosmos declares itself a campaign that tackles several of the Cryptocurrency sector's "greatest challenges." It seeks to bring a remedy to "slow, costly, collaboratively to achieve and energy intensive" proof-of-work protocols, such as those used by Bitcoin, by providing an ecosphere of linked blockchains.

Due to a flexible architecture that is going to be made distributed applications, the proposal's of Cosmos other aims are creating Blockchain Technology less confusing and less hard for programmers. Next, a standard for Interblockchain communication allows it simpler for blockchain systems to interact with one another, avoiding market splitting.

Image of Cosmos Logo
Cosmos Logo

Cosmos is considered to be "Blockchain 3.0"

Ticker Symbol for Cosmos in Crypto markets is "ATOM"

ATOM coins were related by Cosmos to that same ASICs which have been used by miners for Mining the Bitcoins. This is a bit of virtualized hardware or financial powerhouse that we should acquire in opportunity to involve as a holder in the network," like a scientific piece of paper published by the Tendermint online community.

Here is a Live Chart of Trading rates for Buying and Selling ATOM:


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May 13, 2020

SHA 256 Algorithm usage in Bitcoin Mining

SHA stands for Secure Hash Algorithm. 256 represents the number of bits of size in memory occupied by a hash generated by SHA 256 Algorithm.

SHA 256 is a hash function in Cryptography field that is used in Mining of Bitcoins.

The output of hash function will be a sting of 64 characters long. All the characters are hexadecimal.

Not only in Cryptocurrency field, SHA 256 can be used in many other use cases for uniquely identifying any document or file  or any text.

The hash value will be same for same files or same text every time we use them.

5 Attributes of Secure Hash Algorithm:

One Way - Using the output Hash, we couldn't generate the original text.

Deterministic - Same hash should be generated for same original text everytime.

Fast Computation - Hash should be generated very swiftly without time delay

Avalance Effect - Even the slightest change in original input text should result in drastic change in output hash.

Must Withstand Collisions - Same hash should not be generated for two different inputs.


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