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Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789537000
Length 90 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Harish Garg Harish Garg
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Learning to mine bitcoin

Some features of bitcoin mining are as follows:

  • Bitcoin mining is the process of adding bitcoin transactional data to bitcoin's global public ledger of past transactions. Each bitcoin miner gets involved with all the other miners in order to gather the outstanding transactions into a block by dealing with specialized analytical and arithmetical problems.
  • In order to gain accuracy and solve the problems, bitcoin miners gain all of the transactions they process.
  • In addition to transaction fees, miners also receive an additional reward for each block they mine. Anyone can participate in bitcoin mining by running a computer program. In addition to running on traditional computers, some companies have designed specialized bitcoin mining hardware that can process transactions and build blocks much more quickly.

One can choose to mine bitcoin in the cloud...

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