What is bitcoin mining?
What is bitcoin mining? The Bitcoin protocol stipulates that 21 million Bitcoin will exist at some point. What Bitcoin miners do is bring them out into the light, a few at a time. Bitcoin mining is performed by high powered computers that solve complex mathematical computations, these computations are impossible to solve by hand. When computers solve these computations, they add transactions to the blockchain and as a reward, they get a new Bitcoin. How does it work? What these…