51% Attack

A scenario in which a single miner or group of miners controls more than half of the network’s mining power, or hash rate, potentially allowing them to manipulate the blockchain by double-spending coins, preventing new transactions from confirming, or halting payments between some or all users.

Hash

A function that converts an input (or ‘message’) into a fixed-size string of bytes, typically...

Satoshi

The smallest unit of Bitcoin, named after Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous person or group of...

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