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Why hashing when generating account from public key?
When producing an account out of public key it's a common approach to hash the latter multiple times (sometimes using different algos) before encoding and taking a portion of the product. Is this done ...
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Could multicollisions be used to mine large amounts of cryptocurrency?
I'm reading about hash functions at the moment, and in the book I'm reading there's a section on multicollisions. Specifically, using a 2-collision to find $2^N$ collisions in $N2^N$ time.
If, ...
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