diff --git a/ch02_overview.adoc b/ch02_overview.adoc index 26ca1143..b4322c37 100644 --- a/ch02_overview.adoc +++ b/ch02_overview.adoc @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ Mining is designed to be a decentralized lottery. Each miner can create their own lottery ticket by creating a _candidate block_ that includes the new transactions they want to mine plus some additional data fields. The miner inputs their candidate into a specially designed algorithm that -scrambles (or "hashes") the data, producing output that looks nothing +scrambles((("hash functions"))) (or "hashes") the data, producing output that looks nothing like the input data. This _hash_ function will always produce the same output for the same input--but nobody can predict what the output will look like for a new input, even if it is only slighly different from a