Exahash, Zettahash, Yottahash
When I first heard of cryptographic hash functions, they were called “one-way functions” and seemed like a mild curiosity. I had no idea that one day the world would compute a mind-boggling number of hashes every second. Because Bitcoin mining requires computing hash functions to solve proof-of-work problems, the world currently computes around 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 hashes, one zettahash, per second. Other cryptocurrencies uses hash functions for proof-of-work as well, but they contribute a negligible amount of hashes per second […]