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hashlocks

hashlocks is the plural of hashlock.

Meaning of hashlock

Noun

hashlock (plural hashlocks)

  1. A Bitcoin feature that restricts the spending of an output or multiple outputs until a specified piece of data is publicly revealed.
    • By encumbering the Bitcoin transaction outputs with a hashlock and timelock, the channel counterparty will be unable to outright steal funds and Bitcoins can be exchanged without outright counterparty theft.2016 January 14, Joseph Poon, Thaddeus Dryja, “The Bitcoin Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments”, in Lightning Network

Questions about hashlocks

What is hashlocks the plural of?
Hashlocks is the plural of hashlock.

Words near hashlocks in the dictionary

  1. hashkama
  2. hashkey
  3. hashkeys
  4. hashlike
  5. hashlock
  6. hashlocks
  7. hashmagandy
  8. Hashman
  9. Hashmans
  10. hashmap
  11. hashmaps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hashlocks (page history and authors); hashlock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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