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The hash rate is the measuring unit of the processing power used to secure the Bitcoin network.

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How does merged mining work?

How does the implementation of merged mining affect the global hash rate of alt chains? Does one solution fit all? Does one solution fit some? Does the rate of "solutions that will fit" decrease ...
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What is the difference between kH/s, MH/s, and GH/s?

I started mining on a friend's computer and it shows 300 kH/s. But when I research other peoples' hash rates I usually see MH/s. Are these speeds the same as kilobytes and megabytes? Also, when I say ...
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Solo mining just for luck, realistic?

Just turned my attention to mining and the concepts are quite new to me. First of let me be clear: I realize that my hardware setup is far from ideal for mining. This is also the reason why I do not ...
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What does the mining difficulty number really mean?

I'm new to bitcoin; please bear with me. I'm looking into mining, how it works, and how to get started. I see a "mining difficulty" from many sources and list a 3 billion something number without ...
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Why can't they use super computers to mine all the bitcoins?

I have very limited knowledge of bitcoin, but, I hope you don't mind my asking this question: As I understand it, "mining bitcoin" requires "significant" computational prowess. A lot of dedicated ...
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What can be done about the no-transaction block relayer (currently 71.123.170.150)?

An unknown major solo miner (currently IP 71.123.170.150), most likely a botnet, is relaying blocks with zero transactions. Two weeks ago this miner constituted ~15% of the network, now it constitutes ...
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What happens if hash rate decreases rapidly?

Since difficulty is only adjusted every 2016 blocks, what would happen if hash rate was to decrease rapidly? Wouldn't this cause blocks to be created less frequently and also making the time until ...
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How will bitcoin stay decentralized when mining becomes extremely expensive?

My understanding of bitcoin is that the miners are the ones keeping bitcoin decentralized. What happens when only the richest of people can afford mining?
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Mining pool hashrate effect on a miner's income

Newbie miners have many misconceptions about how the hashrate of the pool they mine in will affect their mining income. If a big miner joins the pool there are some unhappy miners who think that now ...
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Why doesn't the same miner always win?

If the miner with the strongest ability to solve the block wins, why doesn't the same miner win every time? Wouldn't that miner still have the strongest ability to perform the proof of work on the ...
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What is the approximate hashrate of a human?

Which and how much mathematical operations are required for the blockheader-to-blockhash operation and how fast would a human be able to calculate a single hash? EDIT: For simplicity, I think it's a ...
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What are the odds of discovering a block as a solo miner?

I understand that during mining, one does not discover individual coins, but rather blocks of coins, and I heard that one block equals many coins (but how many?). I am wondering though, as a solo ...
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What happens once the mining reward gets cut in half?

Sometime around the end of 2012 the mining reward is expected to be cut in half from 50BTC/block to 25BTC/block. What effect will this have? Doesn't this mean that it will be less economic to run a ...
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What mining performance can we roughly expect from the Intel SHA extensions of the upcoming Skylake processor architecture?

Intel is scheduled to release their new x86 SkyLake microarchitecture in Q3 2015. Among other interesting features, it will introduce SHA extensions that will allow hardware acceleration of the Secure ...
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How can I measure the total hashing power of the Bitcoin network?

Is there a way to measure what is the total hashing power of the Bitcoin network at a given time? For pooled mining it isn't a problem - one can rely on statistics provided by the pool (assuming one ...
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What is the ecological effect of increased work for the Bitcoin chain?

As more users use Bitcoin and "forced work" difficulty increases what effect does this have ecologically? It is a silly question I know. I'm just comparing let's say value or effect of using ...
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Why does merely having Windows Media Player open double my GPU hashrate?

I'm using poclbm to mine under Windows... processor is an AMD A6-3400M with integrated Radeon HD 6250G GPU. When Windows Media Player is closed, I get a rate of 16 megahashes/second, but when it is ...
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How to quickly check your mining speed?

Is there some website that provides some webminer or other way for a person to check their mining speed without actually joining any pool or doing solo mining? Alternatively, are there some miners ...
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How fast is the Bitcoin (mining) network?

How fast is the Bitcoin mining network compared to other distributed computing networks? ;)
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Calculating average number of hashes tried before hitting a valid block

I'm toying with the idea of starting to mine, and was wondering how to calculate how many hashes on average must be tried before one will "hit" a valid block? I'm talking about a single user (not a ...
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Merchant tool that will dynamically adjust the # of required confirmations based on network hashrate data

Satoshi built Bitcoin to be a decentralized network. Some of the original recommendations (such as waiting for 6 confirmations) relied on statistics that related to level of decentralization. https://...
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When did the ASIC mining era begin?

I am trying to figure out when the ASIC mining era began. A Bitcoin magazine article from January 23rd 2013 announces the imminent arrival of the first batch of Avalon miners in early February. Is ...
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What is "buying hash rate" and how could it be profitable?

I'm sorry if this question may sounds like a newbie question (well, it is). Introduction I'm 23 years old and I would like to generate money with my money to eventually invest in stock market after ...
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Can quantum computing improve Bitcoin mining?

Would a D-Wave 2 with 512 qbits be faster than the fastest ASIC when mining bitcoins?
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How will the Bitcoin network look after BFL ASIC hardware shipments?

There have been over 7000 pre-orders of BFL SC series mining machines, with the cheapest one supposedly running at 3.5 GH/s and the most expensive being 1000GH/s thats a lot of hashes about to be ...
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How do mining pools figure out the hashing speed of the connected miners?

How do mining pools figure out the hashing speed of the miners connected to it?
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how do I figure out the hash rate of my computer? [duplicate]

My computer has AMD A4-5300 APU W/ Radeon(tm)HD subscore 6.2 Graphics AMD Radeon HD 7480D 4.7 If any one can help , thank you!
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How many hashes create one Bitcoin?

Irrespective of the length of time required to calculate one hash, how many hash operations are required to produce one Bitcoin?
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Do PCI USB risers lower the hashing rate?

I have a PCI USB riser like this one: I have 2 identical video cards with one plugged directly into the motherboard and one plugged in via the PCI riser. I am seeing a hash rate of 290 KH/s on the ...
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How will a massive increase in hashpower affect orphan rates?

Difficulty always lags behind a little. It is also limited in how large adjustments it makes each time. What if the (global) hashrate doubles overnight? What if it quadruples? How much can we expect ...
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Miner speed conversion

What is the exact ratio one would use to convert Miner speed from Hashes per second to Shares per second, assuming Difficulty 1 shares?
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What is the algorithm to create a Bitcoin mining calculator?

I want to know how I can calculate the profit of bitcoin mining in bitcoins. I am interested in the formula that is used by calculators. For example lets say I have 700mh/s hashrate, current ...
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What is a megahash and how is it used to estimate the rate at which bitcoins are mined?

What part of the bitcoin network requires hashes and why? What is the relation between money and the megahashes a card can do?
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What is the hash-rate of the Bitcoin network that results in the maximum difficulty?

According to https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Target the target is a 256-bit number. As the total hash-rate of the Bitcoin network rises, this number decreases to increase the difficulty. How much hash-rate ...
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How do we know which miner or pool mined a block?

There are websites that talk about each mining pool's total % of hashrate. I think they do that by calculating what % of the last X blocks were mined by a particular miner/pool. But how can we know ...
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Will Bitcoin scaling affect the amount of hashing power required to keep the network secure?

In Mastering Bitcoin Andreas Antonopulous asserts that "Bitcoin can scale up, achieve broader adoption, and remain secure without any increase in hashing power from today’s level." Is this really ...
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Bitcoin value vs. Supercomputing

What protects the stability of Bitcoin's value if supercomputers or some other technological breakthrough allows them to be mined at rates we have not anticipated?
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CPU vs GPU Mining (FTC) - CPU wins? How?

I've read many times over a long period of time that GPU will win out against CPU every time if you use hardware of a similar tier/age. However, i've been toying around today with some FTC mining and ...
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Unknown factor in bitcoin pool breakdown

Some time ago the breakdown was dangerously close to heaving too heavily towards Deepbit with only a small part unknown/single person miners. Now there's a 34% unknown factor. What caused this? Are ...
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Incentive for mining by regular users

Most of the time that a regular user gets introduced to the concept of mining, they're immediately non-incentivized by the community and also by the high-cost of hardware compared to the actual reward....
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How many shares need to be mined before a block is released?

How many shares need to be processed on average before a block is found? I know that "luck" can be a huge factor which is why it's not quite as simple as that. I ask because I'm starting my own pool ...
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How do I make a profit buying cloud-hashing contracts?

I have tried one of the hashpower selling/buying website (nicehash) to buy hashpower. I have connected my order to a pool where I had one worker. However, despite all the advertisements, I could not ...
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I've tried everything from mining bitcoin to litecoin to other altcoins....why do I have no luck?

I am a beginner in the blossoming culture of crypto-currency, and unfortunately, it's beginning to feel as if 2015 is too late of a year for a laptop-user such as I to be able to start mining. I'm ...
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Bitcoin inflation in 9/12 doesn't seem to have been corrected. Why not and will it be fixed?

I'm looking at the Total Bitcoins in Circulation graph and don't understand why there is a spike of coins being generated in Sept '12. What caused this to happen? Also, since there is a fixed number ...
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What hashing speed does my hardware have?

I'm checking this page to know what hashing speed my hardware has. But there's no explanation about the acronyms. For my Core 2 Quad Q9650, what's the expected hashing speed?
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Does variability of block solution time change as difficulty increases?

We know that the expected average time to solve a block from any given point in time is 10 minutes when the network hash rate matches the current difficulty. However, as difficulty increases are we ...
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How is the probability of winning a block calculated from the difficulty?

I have problem finding this. The Bitcoin wiki mentions the probability here, but only with a link to the current value on BlockExplorer. The wiki page on difficulty doesn't mention the formula for ...
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Are big miners a threat for Bitcoin?

According to this graph, the biggest miner is so big that combined with two of the three runners-up they would have more than 50% of the hashing power. Is that to be considered a threat to the ...
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How to tell who mined a bitcoin?

If the Bitcoin algorithm was broken and someone started spitting out blocks one after the other through their otherworldly space computer, could it be detected that the same miner was busting all the ...
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How does the pool know the share hashes are calculated and not cheated?

Miners calculate share hashes and submit them to the pool for their proof of work. And if the share hashes leads to a correct block hash in terms of difficulty, everybody in the pool gets paid ...
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