Number of bitcoin miners
It's about 37 yuan
let me first introce the reward mechanism of bitcoin system
bitcoin can basically dig out a block every 10 minutes through system settings. The reward for each block is given to the miners who dig out the block. The miner who digs out the block is called the block miner. The block miner will record the legal transactions in the bitcoin network to the blockchain, so that the miner can receive the service charge for bookkeeping
there are two parts in the reward for the block Miner: one part is the reward given by the system, which is called coinbase reward (also known as system issuance reward), the other part is the reward for bookkeeping, which is called miner's fee. The coinbase reward started with 50 bitcoins. For every integral multiple of 210000 blocks, the coinbase reward will be halved. This is what we often hear about bitcoin mining reward halved in four years
at the present stage, the reward of coinbase is 12.5 bitcoins. At the present stage, the average transaction miner fee received by miners for digging out a block is about 0.1 bitcoin (not fixed), that is to say, the average reward received by miners for digging out a block is about 12.6 bitcoin
about 99% of miners' rewards come from the system's coinbase rewards. According to the bitcoin system, one block can be g out every 10 minutes on average. The number of new blocks that can be g out in one day is 144 (60 * 24 / 10 = 144). At present, the number of bitcoins that can be g out every day is 1800btc (144 * 12.5btc = 1800btc). With the miner's fee of about 0.1btc per block, the total reward for all miners in one day is about 1814.4btc
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.
1. Mining can not only proce bitcoin, but also guarantee transaction information
similarly, a mathematical system contains 21 million mathematical problems, so we need to constantly seek the special solution of each mathematical problem through a huge amount of calculation. In addition, the special solution is unique
mining can not only increase the supply of bitcoin money, but also protect the security of bitcoin transactions and prevent fraulent transactions. In terms of process, bitcoin network is a point-to-point payment system, and anyone can trade through the transaction program
in order to ensure that the transaction process is truthfully recorded, the role of "miner" is required to be responsible for recording bitcoin transaction information. The time interval is 10 minutes. The best recorded transaction records among miners will be packaged and stored in a new block, and the corresponding miners will also receive a certain amount of bitcoin rewards
2. The mining process is extremely complex, which is beyond human power
the specific process is as follows. When a miner listens to the transaction, he will first verify the transaction information. The verified transactions will be recorded by miners and stored in their own database. There may be thousands of miners in the world doing the same thing, but every ten minutes, only one miner has the right to create a new block, so that the transaction information recorded by himself can be recognized and stored permanently
next, miners need to fight for the right to keep accounts. This is a competition of computing power. The core of this competition is to use computers to complete a large number of calculation tasks and find a super difficult random number. This random number is the special solution of the equation mentioned in the first paragraph. The miner who calculates the correct random number first wins. According to the rules of the game, the probability of a miner getting the accounting right is directly proportional to the proportion of his computing power in the total computing power of the whole network. In other words, the probability of finding the random number is equivalent to throwing out 100 million dice, and the total number of dice is less than 150 million. Therefore, mining requires a large number of computers, installation of specific algorithm software, repeated operation day and night, not human
3. Bitcoin mining is actually "villagers' bookkeeping"
maybe some netizens still don't understand, let's take an example. In a village, the villagers often borrow money from each other, even if they write a written document, there is a risk of default. Then, every time there is a loan behavior in the village, we will use the village trumpet to inform everyone that all the villagers (miners) will record all the transaction records in their own account books.
At present, bitcoin needs to be g by professional mining machines. 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
according to the current speed and the number of bitcoins, it will take three months to get a bitcoin if a computer is kept in a 24-hour state of operation
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because the current bitcoin mines use special bitcoin mining machines to mine. The computing power of an ant S9 miner is 13.5th/s, which is equivalent to the sum of the computing power of 7500 1080ti graphics cards. A medium-sized mine has hundreds of such miners
the instry of bitcoin is not very good either, so you'd better not dream of becoming rich overnight with bitcoin. Now many countries have issued policies to suppress the rise of bitcoin prices. Some countries even refuse to dig bitcoin. Many bankers and economists are disgusted with the emergence of bitcoin
as we all know, bitcoin is generated by a network node after completing the calculation of specific mathematical problems, and with the passage of time, the generation of bitcoin will be slower and slower. With the discovery of data blocks, unlocking a single block will be more and more complex, but the bitcoin will be less and less. Unless you use circuits or computer systems designed for mining, such as GPU computing, it's hard to quickly mine bitcoin - and these systems, in general, consume a lot of power< A computer used for mining bitcoin is very expensive in electricity and body.
the tracking results of foreign institutions on bitcoin data show that bitcoin miners use 1 million kilowatt hours of electricity every day - yes, 1 million kilowatt hours of electricity, which costs US $150000 in total to mine bitcoin. At the current exchange rate, the daily income of miners is about 470000 US dollars, but the majority of the income is not attributable to ordinary people like you and me. Most of these benefits are taken away by people who have built a special mining system. If ordinary users use ordinary computers to dig bitcoin, the benefits can't catch up with the electricity bill
as an emerging e-currency, bitcoin is not as easy to dig as it used to be, and its market prospect is difficult to determine.