Encryption & Proof-of-Work in Blockchain Environments

Abstract

Blockchain environments may mix-and-match different encryption, difficulty, and/or proof-of-work schemes when mining blockchain transactions. Each encryption, difficulty, and/or proof-of-work scheme may be separate, stand-alone programs, files, or third-party services. Blockchain miners may be agnostic to a particular coin's or network's encryption, difficulty, and/or proof-of-work schemes, thus allowing any blockchain miner to process or mine data in multiple blockchains. GPUs, ASICs, and other specialized processing hardware components may be deterred by forcing cache misses, cache latencies, and processor stalls. Hashing, difficulty, and/or proof-of-work schemes require less programming code, consume less storage space/usage in bytes, and execute faster. Blockchain mining schemes may further randomize byte or memory block access, further improve cryptographic security.

1 . A method of deterring a specialized hardware processor in a blockchain environment, comprising:
 receiving, by a miner system, a proof-of-work target scheme specified by the blockchain environment;   identifying, by the miner system, a hashing algorithm by querying an electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme specified by the blockchain environment, the electronic database electronically associating proof-of-work target schemes to hashing algorithms including the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the hashing algorithm;   identifying, by the miner system, a proof-of-work mechanism by querying the electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme specified by the blockchain environment, the electronic database electronically associating the proof-of-work target schemes to proof-of-work mechanisms including the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the proof-of-work mechanism;   receiving, by the miner system, a blockchain transaction conducted by computers via the blockchain environment;   generating, by the miner system, a hash value by hashing the blockchain transaction using the hashing algorithm identified by the querying of the electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme; and   generating, by the miner system, a proof-of-work result by executing the proof-of-work mechanism using the hash value;   wherein the electronic database deters the specialized hardware processor in the blockchain environment.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising identifying a difficulty algorithm that is specified by the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , further comprising generating a difficulty by executing the difficulty algorithm using the hash value. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising identifying, by the miner system, a difficulty algorithm by querying the electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment, the electronic database electronically associating the proof-of-work target schemes to difficulty algorithms including the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the difficulty algorithm. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , further comprising generating a difficulty by executing the difficulty algorithm using the hash value. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising identifying a proof-of-work algorithm that is specified by the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , further comprising generating the proof-of-work result by executing the proof-of-work algorithm using the hash value. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising identifying, by the miner system, a proof-of-work algorithm by querying the electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment, the electronic database electronically associating the proof-of-work target schemes to proof-of-work algorithms including the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the proof-of-work algorithm. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8 , further comprising generating the proof-of-work result by executing the proof-of-work algorithm using the hash value. 
     
     
         10 . A miner system for mining a blockchain transaction associated with a blockchain environment, comprising:
 a central processing unit; and   a memory device storing instructions that, when executed by the central processing unit, perform operations, comprising:   receiving a proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment;   identifying a hashing algorithm by querying an electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment, the electronic database electronically associating proof-of-work target schemes to hashing algorithms including the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the hashing algorithm;   identifying a proof-of-work mechanism by querying the electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment, the electronic database electronically associating the proof-of-work target schemes to proof-of-work mechanisms including the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the proof-of-work mechanism;   receiving a blockchain transaction associated with the blockchain environment;   generating a hash value by hashing the blockchain transaction using the hashing algorithm identified by the querying of the electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme; and   generating a proof-of-work result by executing the proof-of-work mechanism using the hash value;   wherein the electronic database deters the mining of the blockchain transaction using an application-specific integrated circuit.   
     
     
         11 . The miner system of  claim 10 , wherein the operations further comprise identifying, by the miner system, a difficulty algorithm by querying the electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment, the electronic database electronically associating the proof-of-work target schemes to difficulty algorithms including the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the difficulty algorithm. 
     
     
         12 . The miner system of  claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise generating a difficulty by executing the difficulty algorithm using the hash value. 
     
     
         13 . The miner system of  claim 12 , wherein the operations further comprise comparing the difficulty to the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment. 
     
     
         14 . The miner system of  claim 10 , wherein the operations further comprise identifying, by the miner system, a proof-of-work algorithm by querying the electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment, the electronic database electronically associating the proof-of-work target schemes to proof-of-work algorithms including the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the proof-of-work algorithm. 
     
     
         15 . The miner system of  claim 14 , wherein the operations further comprise generating the proof-of-work result by executing the proof-of-work algorithm using the hash value. 
     
     
         16 . The miner system of  claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise comparing the proof-of-work result to the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment. 
     
     
         17 . A memory device storing instructions that, when executed by a central processing unit, perform operations that mine a blockchain transaction associated with a blockchain environment, the operations comprising:
 receiving a proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment;   identifying a hashing algorithm by querying an electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment, the electronic database electronically associating proof-of-work target schemes to hashing algorithms including the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the hashing algorithm;   identifying a proof-of-work mechanism by querying the electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment, the electronic database electronically associating the proof-of-work target schemes to proof-of-work mechanisms including the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the proof-of-work mechanism;   receiving a blockchain transaction associated with the blockchain environment;   generating a hash value by hashing the blockchain transaction using the hashing algorithm identified by the querying of the electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme; and   generating a proof-of-work result by executing the proof-of-work mechanism using the hash value;   wherein the electronic database deters the mining of the blockchain transaction using an application-specific integrated circuit.   
     
     
         18 . The memory device of  claim 17 , wherein the operations further comprise identifying, by the miner system, a difficulty algorithm by querying the electronic database for the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment, the electronic database electronically associating the proof-of-work target schemes to difficulty algorithms including the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the difficulty algorithm. 
     
     
         19 . The memory device of  claim 18 , wherein the operations further comprise generating a difficulty by executing the difficulty algorithm using the hash value. 
     
     
         20 . The memory device of  claim 19 , wherein the operations further comprise comparing the difficulty to the proof-of-work target scheme associated with the blockchain environment.