How Monero's proof of work works

Re:How Monero's proof of work works by tomjen3 on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:00PM (#48012397)

They had to design a specialized verification function, which I imagine would be the easy way to break it.

The brilliant part of Bitcoin is that it uses very widely known crypto primitives - verification is the same as getting the right seed (you just happen to be told what the right seed is, rather than having to pay for it to be discovered).

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Re:How Monero's proof of work works by hyc_symas on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:17PM (#48012650)

You must be on drugs. There is no separate specialized verification function. It's the same algorithm for verification as for mining.

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Re:How Monero's proof of work works by tromp on Monday May 04, 2026 @03:19PM (#48013636)

Correct; both Bitcoin and Monero use Hashcash as PoW, only differing in the choice of hash function. Verification is only different from a solution attempt in asymmetric (i.e. non-Hashcash) PoW, such as Cuckoo Cycle or (the poorly named) Equihash.

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Re:How Monero's proof of work works by fluffypony on Monday May 04, 2026 @04:10PM (#48014297)

lolwut. There is no specialised verification function.

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