PoW
See also: pow, pow., pōw, and POW
English
Noun
PoW (plural PoWs)
- (cryptography, cryptocurrencies) Initialism of proof of work.
- 2019, Peng Zhang, Role of Blockchain Technology in IoT Applications, Academic Press (→ISBN), page 187:
- With PoW, as new, unverified transactions become available or broadcast to the entire blockchain network, each node that maintains a copy of the ledger (also known as a “miner”) verifies a set of those transactions to prevent so called “double spending”.
- 2019, Peng Zhang, Role of Blockchain Technology in IoT Applications, Academic Press (→ISBN), page 187: