Timeline for Why do we need block hashes in blockchain?
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| Sep 6, 2017 at 12:29 | vote | accept | Piyush Chittara | ||
| Sep 4, 2017 at 9:16 | comment | added | pebwindkraft | unique reference: yes, this is how I got it as well. SHA256: I think it has the very good "reputation", that you can go quickly in one direction, but it is extremly hard to reverse. So collision "proof" might only be the second idea... | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 20:36 | comment | added | Piyush Chittara | So, the main purpose is to create a unique previous reference only right ?? And the reason why we are using SHA256 here is just to make sure that it is collision resistant? | |
| Sep 2, 2017 at 19:03 | history | answered | pebwindkraft | CC BY-SA 3.0 |