The genius of Bitcoin is how Satoshi Nakamoto managed to put together the different technological pieces of the puzzle to create a truly decentralised currency. This episode we cover the intricacies of Proof of Work, what mining actually is (as opposed to how the media describes it), and we look into how a transaction actually works. It's one of the more jargon-heavy chapters (including some long numbers that you can skip forward through lol - bare with me.. I promise there is method to my madness), so don't be afraid to pause and replay if you fall behind.

Note the completely different SHA256 hashing function outputs mentioned in the episode are:

Hello: 185F8DB32271FE25F561A6FC938B2E264306EC304EDA518007D1764826381969

Happy: 725ACCB5A8E46D19BC3F3A7636D0860A85470FA450BE7F0F6A8C7572756765FD

Helo: 375738319E86099FE081FABEE238C40D6F038959DA383C99CA3FE146E5CC8B7E

The difficulty target expressed as a decimal is: 16307.420938523983 or as a hex58 number: 0x00000000000404CB000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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