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Topic: what is "miner" (Read 529 times)

newbie
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March 18, 2014, 02:19:21 AM
#4
Origin: Middle English minour ; from Old French ; from miner, to mine
legendary
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March 09, 2014, 06:37:56 PM
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I study computer science and I can't understand what is "miner" in real. what  "math problems" the miner try resolve? generate a hash code is a simple work or not?

 sorry for the english tratudor

tanks


This is best answer perhaps : https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining.

You can search WIKI in your language..

Anyway yes - for a computer solving SHA256 is a quite big job. That's why such Hashrates are needed.
hero member
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March 09, 2014, 10:19:49 AM
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A miner is a piece of hardware that solves SHA-256 hashes (in the case of bitcoin) or scrypt, quark and others, in the case of other coins.

Read more here: http://www.coindesk.com/information/how-bitcoin-mining-works/

And generating hashes is DEFINITELY NOT SIMPLE.
newbie
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March 07, 2014, 11:02:50 PM
#1
I study computer science and I can't understand what is "miner" in real. what  "math problems" the miner try resolve? generate a hash code is a simple work or not?

 sorry for the english tratudor

tanks
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