If a blockchain had a heartbeat, it’s the hash rate, miners’ work powers the network, keeping it secure, stable, and running ...

In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering hashing or hash functions. The concept appears throughout security, from encryption to password storage to crypto, and ...

I started the bitcoin_math project in order to teach myself the basics of Bitcoin math from first principles, without having to wade through the source code of any of the crypto or "bignum" libraries ...

Cryptographic hash functions secure data by providing a unique fixed-length output for each input. These functions are essential in blockchain for data integrity and secure transactions. Understanding ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

Let’s dig into the double-double leaderboard with one month to go in the regular season. John McKechnie, RotoWire.com Domantas Sabonis is among the league leaders in double-doubles in 2024-25. Last ...

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...

Double hashing is designed to reduce clustering. It does this by calculating the stride for a given key using a second, independent hash function. Thus, two objects will have the same probe sequence ...

This unique turkey hash is a recipe from poet and novelist Crystal Wilkinson’s cookbook, “Praisesong for the Kitchen Gods.” “I make it the way my grandmother did, although it’s not like the ...