Scrypt
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
In cryptography, scrypt (pronounced "ess crypto) is a an algoritm used in some proof-of-work cryptocurrencies. The algorithm was specifically designed to be computationally harder to mine by requiring large amounts of memory
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