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11 questions linked to/from How does proof of work inspire trust when the work is just guessing?
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Why does mining / validation of new blocks have to be complicated / time consuming? [duplicate]
Why does mining / validation of new blocks have to be complicated / time consuming ?
Why it can't be as simple as just find a hash for a text?
Is it just to control / limit the amount of new crypto ...
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What is the practical link between the hashing power in the bitcoin network and its security? [duplicate]
Several books claim that as the hashing/computing power increases, the bitcoin network is securer. How can a non-techie sees that from a practical standpoint?
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Beginner's question: Why must proof-of-work be useless?
I wonder why the proof-of-work under no circumstances may be usable. The argument I understand is: If the proof-of-work could be used, its results could be sold, and doing the proof-of-work would cost ...
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Why not speed up block mining?
After reading Why is increasing block size in the Bitcoin network considered to decrease security?, I have a follow-up question about increasing block sizes:
why do we not reduce the difficulty of PoW?...
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Why bitcoin is not full p2p?
The goal of bitcoin is to serve as p2p electronic cash. But it still needs a 3rd party (miners) to approve/authorize/record/track/store transactions. The difference is this authority is decentralized ...
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What is the ecological impact of the crypto endgame
I'm interested in the long-term ecological implications of using cryptocurrencies. kraken states in The Truth About Bitcoin:
For example, according to a report from 2017, Bitcoin consumes around 8.27 ...
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White paper text is not clear to me
Is there any intention by the respective author or by Bitcoin.org to edit, improve or re-write the white paper for absolute clarity?
Among others I do not understand the value of repetitive ...
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How Bitcoin mining contributes to confirmations?
Based on my knowledge I know (maybe wrong) when a miner is doing hash, he is inputting any arbitrary values, in order to get a value that can be hashed into something with certain preceding zeros. ...
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Confused about POW
I'm pretty new to crypto and I'm confused about POW
POW Is usually explained like this...
A group of transactions are bundled into a memory pool (mempool).
Miners verify each transaction in the ...
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Why is it necessary to solve the SHA-256 issue to get a bitcoin?
I understand that for a new bitcoin to be born it is necessary to solve a SHA-256 problem, that is, to make a machine effort for this (a real race). Whoever makes this effort first takes the bitcoin, ...
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What is the purpose of difficult in PoW [duplicate]
I'm trying to understand Proof of Work and something doesn't seem to fit,
First, it seems to me that the faster the network can confirm a transaction, better is. I'm coming from a computing ...
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