Proof of work - KaveriBridge/crypto GitHub Wiki
About
- Proof of work (PoW)
Mechanism
- Provers => Perform computation and provide proof
- Verifiers => Easily confirm that prover has done the work
Usage by Bitcoin
- Mined using the Hashcash proof-of-work function by individual miners
- Verified by the decentralized nodes in the P2P network.