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Simulate a blockchain network
The SHA-256 Algorithm is a one way cryptographic function that takes a message as input and produces a hexadecimal hash of length 64 as output. Bitcoin uses SHA-256 to generate hashes from data.
Integer
The SHA-256 hash is mapped to a number from 0 to 2^256. All permutations of data have a unique* mapping to a value from 0 to 2^256.
The Bitcoin protocol determines a difficulty. If the hash falls within the range of the difficulty, the block is accepted. The proof-of-work is done.
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100%2^256