Hash

What crypto means by it

A fixed-length fingerprint of some data. Change one character of the input and the output changes completely, which is how a chain of blocks can prove nothing has been quietly edited.

What you already know this as

The check digit on an account number, doing the same job at an enormously larger scale.

Related terms

Transaction hash Block Blockchain

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