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Questions about Bitcoin in the context of CPUs (as opposed to GPU or ASIC mining)

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Mining computations by the numbers

When mining, you computer creates hashes. These hashes must satisfy a certain condition. All a miner does is trying many many times to find a valid hash for a block. For this reason, mining hardware …
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Does having the Bitcoin Client running always use up a lot of the CPU?

The normal bitcoin client should not use more than a few percentages, if not even zero, from your CPU. What client are you running? The Bitcoin-Qt client? …
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