Mining is two coupled markets for settlement and security; transaction fees are users’ bids for settlement rights; and the mempool is the miners’ ask for ordering transactions by offered fees. Similarly, hashes are miners’ bids for the right to add the next block, and the difficulty adjustment is the users’ asks for how much security they desire to

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Units of bitcoin are created through a process called “mining,” which involves repeatedly performing a computational task that references a list of recent Bitcoin transactions. Any participant in the Bitcoin network may operate as a miner, using their computing devices to help secure transactions. Every 10 minutes, on average, one Bitcoin miner can

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Modèle d’origine des blockchains, celle du Bitcoin est publique : n’importe qui peut la télécharger, examiner toutes les transactions (via le site blockchain.info par exemple, qui fait défiler tous les blocs validés en direct), devenir un nœud, c’est-à-dire un membre du réseau, et tenter de miner un bloc en utilisant la puissance de calcul de son o

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