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Bitcoin => Mining support => Topic started by: darius2020 on February 10, 2014, 03:31:42 PM



Title: Could you explain latest news on new hash policy by MtGox ?
Post by: darius2020 on February 10, 2014, 03:31:42 PM
New hash stays for what ?

http://www.businessinsider.com/mtgox-statement-on-withdrawals-2014-2

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We believe this can be addressed by using a different hash for transaction tracking purposes. While the network will continue to use the current hash for the purpose of inclusion in each block's Merkle Tree, the new hash's purpose will be to track a given transaction and can be computed and indexed by hashing the exact signed string via SHA256 (in the same way transactions are currently hashed).

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/mtgox-statement-on-withdrawals-2014-2#ixzz2svwR4ZkL

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