Cryptocurrency Hash Function
Cryptocurrency Hash Function interesting fact before we get to the good stuff Hash functions are often confused with chechsums, check digits, fingerprints, lossy compression, randomization functions error-correcting codes and ciphers. Althought these concepts do overlap to some extent, each has its own uses and requirements and is designed and optimized differently. The hash keeper (not hash you smoke lol) database maintained by the American National Drug Intelligence Centre, for instance is more apt described as a catolouge of file fingerprints than of hash values Now for the good stuff A Hash function is any form of function that can be used to create a map or map data of arbitrary size to data of a fixed size. the values returned by a hash function are call HASH VALUES, HASH CODES, Digests, or simply HASHES. One use is a data structure called a hash table (knights of the hash table lol) widely used in computer software for rapid lookup. Hash functions accelerate...