For Bitcoin specifically, the hashing algorithm difficulty adjusts up and down depending on how high the hash rate is. This is because creation of new Bitcoin was designed to be controlled over time.

As the federal government comes under attack by increasingly sophisticated threat actors, encrypting data, hashing passwords and salting hashes are becoming more important.

Researchers have found a new way to attack the SHA-1 hashing algorithm, still used to sign almost one in three SSL certificates that secure major websites, making it more urgent than ever to ...

ZCash is a Bitcoin fork with a different hashing algorithm and security protocols. ZCash started as Zerocash; it was later improved upon by the Electric Coin Company and rebranded ZCash. 1 ZCash ...

What Is a Merkle Tree? A Merkle tree is a data encryption structure used in data management applications where data is sent through a hashing algorithm in different ways to create a hash that ...