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Why do we want cryptographic hash functions in Bitcoin?

Or any blockchain system for that matter?

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User Jivay
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We want blockchain systems in bitcoin because it is protecting your information using codes. Specifically, the information is assimilated in blocks using cryptographic technologies and it is added to the next block as a representative of the information in the previous block.

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