What is the Pearldiver?

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I've frequently heard the term "Pearldiver" around Iota. What exactly is it and what does it do?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 01 '18 at 07:15

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"PearlDiver" is the name of the algorithm doing the PoW in the IRI. You can find the code in the official repo on github here.

edited Oct 01 '18 at 07:15

Zauz

answered Oct 01 '18 at 06:58

Diego Stucchi

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the name of the Java reference implementation of this algorithm, to be more precise. – mihi Oct 01 '18 at 19:47

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