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Mining

Bitcoin mining is the process of verifying and adding transaction records to the public ledger (blockchain). Miners are rewarded with coins for their work.

@anthonyonchain Ports Ordinals to Litecoin - MWEB White Paper Inscribed on Block 2425370

@anthonyonchain Ports Ordinals to Litecoin - MWEB White Paper Inscribed on Block 2425370

@anthonyonchain recently ported Ordinals, a NFT protocol created by Casey Rodarmor, to Litecoin. To commemorate the occasion, the first inscription on the Litecoin blockchain is the MWEB white paper.

Scrypt: Harnessing Memory

Scrypt: Harnessing Memory

Scrypt is a memory-hard function designed to protect against denial-of-service attacks and for metering clients' access. It is resistant to specialized hardware like ASICs and FPGAs, making it more secure than other algorithms.

SHA256 vs Scrypt: Why Comparing Hash Rates of Different Hashing Algorithms is Misleading

SHA256 vs Scrypt: Why Comparing Hash Rates of Different Hashing Algorithms is Misleading

Application Specific Integrated Circut (ASIC) miners are designed to mine a specific algorithm; they cannot be configured to mine a different algorithm.