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    Sonal Shridhar Shinde in Introduction to Blockchain Technology

    17-Jan-2023 12:39 PM


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    Purpose of Proof-of-Work (PoW)

    The purpose of Proof-of-Work (PoW) is to make sure that all the computers on a network agree and trust each other. This is done by adding new transactions to blocks and then adding those blocks to the blockchain. Miners, who are special computers on the network, use math to solve a difficult problem to add the block to the blockchain. This process is called PoW. As time goes on, the math problem gets harder.