A nonce refers to a number that can be used once and only once. BlockchainAs a distributed ledger technology (DLT), a blockchain is a digital ledger that can create an immutable record of transactions.... Read More technology utilizes nonces as a counter during the process of miningMining verifies and records cryptocurrency transactions on a digital ledger (blockchain). The approval or verification process for adding new transactions... Read More. Authentication protocols and cryptographic hashA hash is a fixed-length code representing any length of words, messages, or data generated by a hashing algorithm. In... Read More functions also often make use of nonces.