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Cryptographic Hash Function

What is a Cryptographic Hash Function?

A cryptographic hash function uses cryptography to produce a unique, fixed size hash value output from variable transactional inputs.

The SHA-256 algorithm used by Bitcoin is an example of a cryptographic hash function.

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