alt Hacker NewsYou must be on drugs. There is no separate specialized verification function. It's the same algorithm for verification as for mining.
You must be on drugs. There is no separate specialized verification function. It's the same algorithm for verification as for mining.
Correct; both Bitcoin and Monero use Hashcash as PoW, only differing in the choice of hash function. Verification is only different from a solution attempt in asymmetric (i.e. non-Hashcash) PoW, such as Cuckoo Cycle or (the poorly named) Equihash.