Re: Where is hashing algorithm code?

Quote from: bob123 on February 11, 2018, 01:35:06 PM

Quote from: wsxdrfv on February 11, 2018, 11:44:31 AM

So bitcoin uses sha256, litecoin scrypt, dash x11.
Where is revision location(source code filename, approx line position) of this algorithm?

Simply google. Those algorithms (SHA, scrypt) weren't invented for those cryptocurrencies.
They existed before.

SHA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2
scrypt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrypt

X11 is concatenated algorithm composed of BLAKE, BMW, Grøstl, JH, Keccak, Skein, Luffa, CubeHash, SHAvite, SIMD and Echo.

Quote from: wsxdrfv on February 11, 2018, 11:44:31 AM

How change to x11 algorithm? Some site says x11 is best algorithm.

Changing the algorithm would require a hard fork (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(blockchain)#Hard_fork).
There is no "best" algorithm.
Simply because there is no definition of a "best" algorithm.

Additionally you should not believe what you read on "some site".

Thanks for your informative explanation.
Just wonder that the work of finding a new block(mining) is it kind of decrypting these algorithm?