Which two coins are bitcoin divided into now
The capacity of a block in bitcoin is 1m (megabytes). A transaction is between 250 and 500 bytes
according to this algorithm, a block contains about 4194.3 transactions
the confirmation time of a block in bitcoin is 10 minutes, so the seven transactions that a block can process per second may sometimes be less than seven
What are the consequences The bifurcations of
bitcoin are divided into hard bifurcations and soft bifurcations
hard fork means that when the block format or transaction format of bitcoin changes, the UN upgraded nodes refuse to verify the blocks proced by the upgraded nodes
the upgraded nodes can verify the blocks proced by the non upgraded nodes, and they continue the chain they think is correct, so they are divided into two chains
What is soft bifurcationsoft bifurcation means that when the data structure of bitcoin transaction changes,
UN upgraded nodes can verify the blocks proced by upgraded nodes,
and upgraded nodes can also verify the blocks proced by UN upgraded nodes
The concept of 21 million
bitcoin was first proposed by Nakamoto in 2009. According to Nakamoto's idea, open source software was designed and released, and P2P network was built on it. Bitcoin is a kind of P2P digital currency. Point to point transmission means a decentralized payment system
bitcoin is not issued in unlimited quantity, which is different from most currencies. Bitcoin does not rely on a specific currency issuer. But according to the specific algorithm, through a large number of calculations. Its circulation is controlled by software algorithms. The total number is 21 million
extended materials:
generation principle
starting from the essence of bitcoin, the essence of bitcoin is actually the special solution generated by a bunch of complex algorithms. A special solution is one of the infinite (in fact, bitcoin is finite) solutions that can be obtained from the equations. Every particular solution can solve the equation and is unique[ 10] In the metaphor of RMB, bitcoin is the serial number of RMB. If you know the serial number of a note, you have the note. The process of mining is to constantly seek the special solution of this equation system through a huge amount of calculation. This equation system is designed to have only 21 million special solutions, so the upper limit of bitcoin is 21 million
to mine bitcoin, you can download the special bitcoin computing tools, register various cooperation websites, fill the registered user name and password into the computing program, and then click the operation to officially start. After completing the installation of bitcoin client, you can directly obtain a bitcoin address. When others pay, you only need to paste the address to others, and you can pay through the same client. After installing the bitcoin client, it will distribute a private key and a public key. You need to back up your wallet data containing your private key to ensure that your property is not lost. Unfortunately, if the hard disk is completely formatted, personal bitcoin will be completely lost
BCC does not meet the definition of bitcoin network bifurcation. BTC and BCC are two completely different chains in two days. As like as two peas, the whole network as like as two peas, which can not be synchronized in one chain, has two pieces of block chain network with identical bitcoins. Two networks have a large number of miners digging, and transactions on two different networks can not be synchronized. This leads to two even the same difficulty of two parallel chains, which is called forking.
BCC has also been identified by bitcoin international Roundtable forum as a competitive currency that replicates bitcoin blockchain and modifies some codes. Therefore, it is a wrong interpretation that BCC is the network fork of bitcoin.
bitcoin is used for graphics card mining. It used to be OK, but now there is almost no profit from using graphics card mining. Of course, if your electricity is free, it's OK. The graphics card mining you mentioned is the second stage of bitcoin mining. The first stage is mining with CPU, which is an ordinary computer. The second stage is the graphics card mining you mentioned, commonly known as burning graphics card. At present, it has entered the third stage of ASIC mining machine mining stage. In this stage, the computing power is very high, the mining income is very low, and the mining cost is almost close to or even more than the currency price. At present, the profit of large-scale mining mainly depends on the energy consumption of mining machine and the advantage of electricity price.
two key figures in the bitcoin field have developed another version of bitcoin. They are Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn, the chief developers of bitcoin
for several months, Anderson and Hearn have been arguing with the other three chief developers of bitcoin: whether the blocks processed in bitcoin transactions should be further expanded from the current 1MB, so as to be able to process more than three payments per second
this new version of bitcoin, called bitcoin XT, increases the capacity of the block to 8MB and can complete 24 transactions per second. Although it is far lower than visa's processing speed of 20000 transactions per second, it will increase every year in the future, so bitcoin will continue to grow
opponents of bitcoin XT believe that increasing the block capacity may undermine the original intention of this decentralized payment system, because the extra computer memory requirements may crowd out thousands of independent "nodes" from the network< Some people think that this split marks the end of bitcoin. But he told Reuters on Tuesday that the cryptocurrency will continue to exist, whether or not it is accepted
"if we thought it might ruin bitcoin's future, we wouldn't do it." He said. He added that since last Saturday, about 10% of the nodes have agreed to use bitcoin XT.
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