What Is Bitcoin Mining?
Bitcoin mining stands for the processing of transactions, in which the bitcoin transactions are verified so as to get added to the blockchain. The processing creates a new block that gets back-linked with the recent block in the blockchain. The blocks must get validated by a proof-of-work. Bitcoin uses HashCash toward this. Upon obtaining a block, this is broadcast to the network. This gets verified by other miners for consensus.
The participants to perform bitcoin mining are called miners. The miners get incentive to do mining. There are two parts to mining: verifying or compiling recent transactions and solving a mathematical problem. Whoever that is, a miner solves these first and gets the incentive ...
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