Last, but certainly not least, is blockchain technology. This is the underlying cryptographic technology that powers cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. This is, of course, a very new field, which was first described by Bitcoin's mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, in a white paper published in 2008. GPUs were applied to this field almost immediately after its invention—generating a unit of currency comes down to brute-force cracking a cryptographic puzzle, and a GPU can attempt to brute-force crack more combinations in parallel than any other piece of hardware available to the general public today. This process is known as mining.
Those who are interested in blockchain technology are suggested to read Satoshi Nakamoto's original white paper on Bitcoin, which is available here: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf.
GUIMiner, an open...
GUIMiner, an open...
