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How will mining work after 2140?
There’s no such thing as a block without a coinbase transaction. Even if the block reward plus fees is zero, it is still a mandatory transaction at the start of every block, it just pays nothing.
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How does AsicBoost work?
I'm reproducing figures 2 and 3 from the paper below to provide an alternative interpretation.
Fig 2:
Fig 3:
Historically, mining is composed of an inner loop (red) and an outer loop (green). Each ...
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How are eth transaction faster than btc?
Most simple and foreseen reason:
Bitcoin's blocktime is set at 10 minutes,
while Ethereum has a block every 10-20 seconds, making it much faster.
See Ghost protocol, https://www.cryptocompare.com/...
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How do Bitcoin clients/miners verify balances quickly?
Balances
Bitcoin doesn't care about balances. Miners also don't.
Your wallet may keep track of your balance but it doesn't need to know about anyone else's. No one else cares about your balance. It is ...
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Could a miner set a maximium transaction fee rate?
Yes, miners can choose exactly what transactions to include in their candidate blocks, including the choice to not include anything at all.
Of course, if a high fee paying transaction is available, ...
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Bitcoin Mining using an iPhone?
Is it possible to start Bitcoin mining using an iPhone with 4G internet connection?
Yes. It is theoretically possible to start mining with an iPhone.
Your internet connection is almost completely ...
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Sorry newbie, I dont get the PoS block creation, to much contradiction
POS distributes valid block rewards proportionally to stakers. However, majority stakers cannot be unseated if they do not wish to trade their stake. A 51% staker can control/censor the system ...
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Debug Bitcoin Core Mining
If you mean the generate function, which creates blocks on demand, it is only available for the Regtest mode. Use the -regtest option to run in Regtest mode.
If you mean the setgenerate mining ...
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How are eth transaction faster than btc?
BTC transaction confirmation can be "slow" because of a combination of factors, including:
Maximum block size is limited (the NYA was an attempt to rectify that), thereby limiting the number of ...
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Probablity Distribution of mining
For the impatient
What is the probability distribution of solving a block, given the same difficulty.
It is not clear if you mean the probability distribution of the time it takes to mine a block or ...
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