Most bitcoin miners
mining is perhaps one of the most important components of the bitcoin ecosystem. Miners need to solve complex mathematical problems, so as to ensure the smooth implementation of the transaction. These problems are so complex that they are difficult to solve even for extremely powerful computers. Computers need work and luck to solve these mathematical problems, just as miners dig underground. The chance of solving this problem correctly is about one in 13 trillion
bitcoin mining has two purposes. Firstly, by solving mathematical problems, bitcoin miners can verify the transaction information, so as to ensure the security and reliability of bitcoin payment network. Miners are the people who ensure that transactions are accurate and that there is no "double payment."
Secondly, when the computer solves these complex mathematical problems on the bitcoin network, the system will generate new bitcoin, which is similar to the process of mining gold from the ground. The reward is called "block reward", and after the event called "halving", its amount will be periodically halved. The newly discovered concept of bitcoin is an important part of bitcoin protocol. The bitcoin obtained by the miners is brand new and has never been in circulation beforesince miners will eventually sell the bitcoin, it is also an important source of supply and liquidity. As chainalysis reports, many digital currency exchanges rely on miners to receive bitcoin and increase their liquidity. Typically, exchanges get about 88% of bitcoin from other exchanges, and bitcoin miners are the largest source of the remaining percentage. As you can imagine, there is fierce competition between exchanges to receive bitcoin directly from miners
further enlarge the map, most of the mining activities are only carried out in four provinces, the first two provinces are Xinjiang and Sichuan, accounting for nearly half of all bitcoin mining in China. Electricity prices are cheap and the weather is cold in these areas. This helps to keep mining profits and equipment cool ring the 24 / 7 operation and maintenance period of bitcoin mining
but this is nothing new for digital currency issuance. For many years, China has been a major market for bitcoin miners e to its cheap electricity and abundant resources. Bitmain, f2pool and Canaan are all located in China
whether this is a negative or positive message depends on your point of view. But for decentralized, distributed, unlicensed networks, geographic regions across multiple entities are more healthy for the entire ecosystem
You can't dig in a day. It takes 2000 years
the global unified computing difficulty of bitcoin is 2621404453 (expected to change in two days). It takes more than 2000 years for a 2.5GHz CPU to work out a bitcoin
in order to make the graphics card fully loaded for a long time, the power consumption will be quite high, and the electricity bill will be higher and higher. Many professional mines at home and abroad are operated in areas with extremely low electricity charges, such as hydropower stations, while more users can only mine at home or in ordinary mines, so the electricity charges are not cheap. Even in a certain residential area in Yunnan, there was a case of crazy mining, which led to a large area trip of the residential area, and the transformer was burned
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bitcoin network generates new bitcoin through "mining". In essence, the so-called "mining" is to use computers to solve a complex mathematical problem to ensure the consistency of bitcoin network distributed accounting system
bitcoin network will automatically adjust the difficulty of mathematical problems, so that the whole network can get a qualified answer about every 10 minutes. Then bitcoin network will generate a certain amount of bitcoin as block reward to reward the person who gets the answer
when bitcoin was born in 2009, block rewards were 50 bitcoins. Ten minutes after its birth, the first 50 bitcoins were generated, and the total amount of money at this time is 50. Then bitcoin grew at a rate of about 50 every 10 minutes. When the total amount reaches 10.5 million (50% of 21 million), the block reward will be halved to 25
when the total amount reaches 15.75 million (5.25 million new output, i.e. 50% of 1050), the block reward will be further halved to 12.5. The monetary system used to have no more than 10.5 million in four years, after which the total number will be permanently limited to about 21 million
the following are several well-known bitcoin forums
domestic:
Avalon official forum: it mainly discusses Avalon mining machine, and Avalon will also timely announce the latest news and progress of Avalon mining machine
bitcoin house: a comprehensive bitcoin forum. Bitcoin house is not only a forum but also an information station. You can not only participate in the discussion and interaction, but also view the latest instry information of bitcoin
foreign:
bitcointalk is the largest bitcoin Instry Forum in the world. Some instries will make complaints about it.
reddit bitcoin area, equivalent to China's internet post bar, is more active and has less restrictions on posting.
take bitcoin as an example. Every 10 minutes, all the miners work out a math problem together. Whoever works out the answer first is equivalent to digging into the block and taking it as a reward to get the corresponding bitcoin. Mining equipment is the first to use computers. With the rising price of bitcoin, more and more people participate in mining. CPU mining has graally turned into a professional graphics card. In recent years, it has become a specific mining machine. This evolution is e to the problem of computing power. As I said just now, mining means "all miners work out a mathematical problem together." the higher the computing power, the stronger the hardware computing power and the faster the speed
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Nakamoto's mining is unreliable
On October 31, 2008, a person named Nakamoto published a research report called bitcoin: a peer-to-peer cash payment system on a secret cryptography discussion group, which elaborated the new idea of e-moneysoon after, he developed an operating system for bitcoin issuing, trading and account management on the platform of P2P (peer-to-peer or person to person) peer-to-peer network and distributed database, combining the working mode of open source software and block cipher in cryptography
the system enables all nodes throughout the peer-to-peer network to reach network agreements according to their seed files, so as to ensure fairness, security and reliability in currency issuance, management and circulation
after the advent of bitcoin, it quickly attracted the following and attention of geeks. However, what is puzzling is that after leaving bitcoin in cyberspace, Nakamoto Tsung has not been as frequently active in the bitcoin community as before, but graally faded out of the public's sight
in the spring of 2011, after leaving behind the sentence "I started to do something else", Nakamoto completely evaporated from the Internet space. No one can know his real identity, only that this mysterious figure left 2 million bitcoins for himself in the earliest block he owned, and these bitcoins have not been passive yet
people want to see the true face of Nakamoto, and even use the powerful human flesh search tool to search, which is still fruitless, Even the two Google engineers who later took charge of repairing the bitcoin project claimed that they had never found and met Nakamoto at the scene
extended data mining is a process of increasing bitcoin money supply. Mining also protects the security of the bitcoin system, prevents fraulent transactions, and avoids "double payment", which means spending the same bitcoin multiple times
miners provide algorithms for bitcoin network in exchange for the opportunity of bitcoin reward. The miners verify each new transaction and record it in the general ledger
every 10 minutes, a new block will be "mined", and each block contains all the transactions from the generation of the previous block to the present, which are added to the blockchain in turn
we call the transactions included in the block and added to the blockchain "confirmed" transactions. Only after the transaction is "confirmed" can the new owner spend the bitcoin he gets in the transaction