From ebceff11d41f065357cc017ac95d1f0e466aa587 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Craig Everett Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 20:30:24 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Add Mining --- Mining.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Mining.md diff --git a/Mining.md b/Mining.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b94a5e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Mining.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Mining + +Following from the [PoW](Proof-of-Work) idea comes the idea of "mining". On a blockchain a number of nodes will compete over the right to be recognized as the (temporary) leader of the blockchain. In the case of the Gajumaru the type of puzzle is called a "cuckoo cycle" where a very large map of nodes is generated in a deterministic way from a seed number, a cycle of a determined size must be found within that map, and then the various miners race each other to find a suitably large cycle within that map. Other blockchains usually use some form of +numerical hashing (trying to find a sufficiently small hash of a given input value added to a nonce), but the principle is the same. \ No newline at end of file