As a basic demonstration, we could try 'mining' with our Python hash function by manually adding exclamation points after "CoinDesk rocks!" until we find a hash that starts with a single zero.

A Python script that prints its own hash would be easy. But not every file type is so easy. Take PNG for instance. these files are split into chunks of data, and each chunk is both CRC-32 and ...

Together, Krapivin (now a graduate student at the University of Cambridge), Farach-Colton (now at New York University) and Kuszmaul demonstrated in a January 2025 paper that this new hash table can ...