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Anyone with an interest in bitcoin will have heard the phrase 'cryptographic hash function' at some time or other. But what exactly does it mean, and how is it connected to cryptocurrency? Hash ...

The specialness is indeed mostly because of the strong usage conventions - None is a well-known singleton, with ecosystem-wide expectations on how it should be used. Anyone who wants ...