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Let us say you had one legit $20 and one quite good photocopy of that same $20. If someone were to try to spend both the true bill and the fake one, someone who took the trouble of looking at either of those invoices' serial numbers would observe that they were the exact same number, and consequently one of them had to be fictitious.

That isn't a perfect analogy--we will explain in more detail below. .

Once a miner has confirmed 1 MB (megabyte) worthiness of Bitcoin transactions, they are entitled to win the 12.5 BTC. The 1 MB limit was set by Satoshi Nakamoto, and can be an issue of controversy, as some miners think the block size ought to be increased to accommodate more information.

Note that I said that verifying 1 MB value of transactions makes a miner eligible to earn Bitcoin--not everyone who supports transactions will receive paid off.

1MB of transactions can technically be small as 1 transaction (although this is not at all common) or a few thousand. It depends on how much data the transactions take up.

In order to earn Bitcoin, you need to fulfill two conditions. One is a matter of effort, one is a matter of luck.

2) You must be the first miner to reach the perfect answer to a numeric issue. This process is also known as a proof of work.

The good news: No advanced math or computation is involved. You may have discovered that miners are solving difficult mathematical problems--that is not true at all. What they are actually doing is trying to be the first miner to think of a 64-digit hexadecimal number (a"hash")  that is less than or equal to the hash.

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The bad news: Since it is guesswork, you need a good deal of computing power in order to get there first. To mine , you need to get a higher"hash speed," that is measured in terms of megahashes per second (MH/s), gigahashes per second (GH/s), and terahashes per second (TH/s).

If you want to estimate how much Bitcoin you can mine with your mining rig's hash pace, the website Cryptocompare provides a helpful my website calculator.

Either way a GPU (graphics processing unit) miner or an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miner. These can run from $500 to the tens of thousands.  Some miners--particularly Ethereum miners--buy individual graphics cards (GPUs) as a cheap way to cobble together mining operations.  The photograph below is a makeshift, high-tech mining machine.  The cards are such rectangular cubes with whirring circles.  Note the sandwich twist-ties holding the graphics cards to the metal pole.

Case in point I tell three friends that I'm thinking about a number between 1 and 100, and that I write that number on a piece of paper and seal it in an envelope. My friends don't have to guess the exact number, they just have to be the first person to guess any number that is less than or equal to the number I'm thinking of.

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Let's say I'm thinking about the number 19. If Friend A guesses 21they lose because 21>19. If Friend B supposes 16 and Friend C supposes 12, then they've both theoretically arrived at viable answers, because 16<19 and 12<19. There's no"extra credit" for Friend B, even though B's answer was closer to the target answer of 19. .

In Bitcoin conditions, simultaneous answers occur frequently, but at the end of the day there can only be one winning answer. When multiple simultaneous answers are presented which can be equal to or less than the target number, the Bitcoin network will decide by a simple majority--51 percent --which miner to honour. Typically, it's the miner that has done the most work, i.e.

The losing block then becomes an"orphan block." .

Now imagine I pose the"guess what number I am thinking of" question, however I am not asking only 3 friends, and I am not thinking of a number between 1 and 100. Rather, I'm asking millions of prospective miners and I am thinking about a 64-digit hexadecimal number. Now you see that it is going to be quite difficult to guess the ideal answer.

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The number preceding has 64 digits. Easy enough to understand up to now. As you probably noticed, that number consists not just of numbers, but also letters of the alphabet. Why is that

In order to understand these letters are doing in the middle of numbers, let's unpack the term"hexadecimal."

As you know, we use the"decimal" system, which means it is base 10. This in turn means that every digit has 10 chances, 0-9.