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Hashing Conventions
This page describes the various hashing conventions within MaxCoin. It is written for a technical audience and is designed to be of use for advanced users and developers.
The checksum used within the message format uses the Keccak algorithm. More detail about the message format can be found on the [MaxCoin Protocol Differences](MaxCoin Protocol Differences) page.
The address format within MaxCoin uses the Keccak algorithm in place of a double SHA-256 hash. More detail about MaxCoin addresses can be found on the [MaxCoin Addresses](MaxCoin Addresses) page.
The transaction hash (txid) uses a single SHA-256 hash of the transaction payload.
It uses a single SHA-256 hash.
Difficulty multiplier is set to 128 for MaxCoin.
The checksums within the CAddrDB class, responsible for reading the peers database, peers.dat, use the Keccak algorithm.