The rise from 1 to 148 trillion does not block participation, it measures how much total computational power is competing at ...

A digital fingerprint of the transactions stored in a block in a crypto blockchain. Block hashes also link blocks together. See cryptographic hash function and blockchain. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...

Mining difficulty for Bitcoin has risen to 148.2 trillion in the latest 2025 difficulty reset, the highest level since miners ...

In the ever-evolving world of cryptocurrencies, where Bitcoin dominates headlines and blockchain promises to redefine finance, one metric continues to stand as the silent sentinel of network security, ...

How mining works is fascinating. When I explain it to people, I enjoy seeing their face the moment their mind is blown. I’ll explain it here, but just know, I’m imagining all your faces as your minds ...

The genesis block kickstarts a blockchain by establishing the network, adhering to consensus rules and linking all future blocks back to the origination point. In proof-of-work (PoW) chains, the ...

Imagine taking a block of data and turning it into a unique string of characters. Like giving it a digital nickname that never changes (unless the data does!). That’s a hash. Whether the original data ...

The Bitcoin hash rate hit another all-time high and the 105,000th block since the last halving was mined, marking the halfway to the next halving. Bitcoin (BTC) marks a milestone mining journey on ...

Web giants Google, Facebook and Twitter have joined forces with a British charity in a bid to remove millions of indecent child images from the net. In a UK first, anti-abuse organisation Internet ...