What is Bitcoin Mining?
Everything you need to know about Bitcoin mining Video Transcript: What is Bitcoin mining? Bitcoin operates as a peer to peer network. This means that everyone who uses Bitcoin is a tiny fraction of the bank of Bitcoin. But where do Bitcoins come from? With paper money a government decides when to print and distribute money. Bitcoin doesn’t have a central government. With Bitcoin, miners use special software to solve math problems. And are issued a certain number a bitcoins in exchange. This provides a smart way to issue the currency. And also creates an incentive for more people to mine. Since miners are required to approve Bitcoin transactions more miners means a more secure network. The Bitcoin network automatically changes the difficulty of the math problems depending on how fast they are being solved. In the early days, Bitcoin miners solved these math problems with the processors and their computers. Soon miners discovered that graphics cards used for gaming were much better...