Understanding Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms: PoW, PoS, and PoH

RickyYang
CoinsBench
Published in
3 min readMay 3, 2024

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The Essence of Blockchain

At its core, blockchain technology is a distributed ledger or a database spread across multiple nodes or locations. One of the primary challenges in such systems is ensuring data consistency — every node must record the same data. To achieve this consistency, a strategic process known as a consensus mechanism is…

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