The principle of bitcoin miner
bitcoin is equivalent to digital gold. As a generally recognized equivalent, gold naturally has monetary properties and has been regarded as a kind of currency since ancient times. Bitcoin was born in 2009 and created by a person named Nakamoto. As the earliest digital currency, it was worthless at the beginning of creation. Until 2017, the highest transaction price of bitcoin exceeded 30000 RMB. The reasons why bitcoin became a valuable digital currency are as follows:
first of all, it is like gold, as a natural mineral, The total amount of bitcoin is limited. Bitcoin can not be over issued according to its own algorithm, so there will be no rapid devaluation of currency e to excessive currency issuance. The number of bitcoin is controlled to no more than 21 million e to the algorithm, so it can not be issued in large quantities, so its value is guaranteed
Bitcoin mining machine is a kind of computer used to earn bitcoin. This kind of computer generally has professional mining chips and works in the way of burning graphics card, which consumes a lot of power. It is one of the ways to get bitcoin that users download software from personal computer and then run specific algorithm to get corresponding bitcoin after communicating with remote server
mining is actually a competition of performance and equipment, and a competition of computing power among miners. Miners with more computing power are more likely to dig bitcoin. With the increase of computing power in the whole network, it is more and more difficult to dig bits with traditional devices (CPU, GPU). People have developed chips specially used for mining. Chip is the core part of mining machine. The process of chip operation will proce a lot of heat, in order to cool down, bitcoin miner is generally equipped with heat sink and fan
bitcoin is a kind of virtual currency. Bitcoin mining system is the process of carrying out mathematical operation for bitcoin network through computer hardware. Miners who provide services can get a reward, because the network reward is calculated according to the tasks completed by miners, so the competition for mining is very fierce
bitcoin mining started with low-cost hardware such as CPU or GPU, but with the popularity of bitcoin, the mining process has changed greatly. Nowadays, the mining activities are transferred to the field programmable gate array, and the hash speed can be achieved through optimization. The mining efficiency of this mode is very high
the principle of bitcoin mining is to implement rules made by people and automatically executed by computers
Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of bitcoin, has stipulated this rule from the very beginning, and those who participate in bitcoin blockchain must automatically abide by it unconditionally
The content ofrules is generally ,
people who pack the circulation data of bitcoin, arrange it into a fixed size, and then upload it to the blockchain for bitcoin whole network synchronous broadcasting can get 50 bitcoins rewarded by the system
under certain conditions, these rewards will be halved, about once every four years
so how to complete the data packing
the person who wants to complete this action must first have the necessary tools, that is, the software to execute the bitcoin blockchain, and the machine (computer at the beginning) to run the software; Then download and save all the bitcoin transaction data that have been recognized by the whole network. At this time, you become a "node" and a part of protecting the blockchain data
Thenode can only get the priority of the packaged data after running a specific mathematical formula and getting the correct answer. The system will automatically give the reward to the node who gets the priority, who completes the packaging first and then uploads it to the blockchain, and receives and approves it from other nodes
if there is bitcoin service charge in the packaged transaction, the service charge belongs to the node
people think that the process of calculating the mathematical formula and then completing the package to get the reward is just like fishing for gold in the river. It is necessary to discard many wrong answers in order to find the right key to get gold, so people compare this process to mining
so bitcoin mining is not really to dig something, or to use computers to constantly collide and guess. Whoever guesses first wins the reward, that's all
the content of this article comes from: financial code of the people's Republic of China: application edition, China Law Press