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Title: what is "miner" Post by: lucasgoiaba on March 08, 2014, 03:02:50 AM 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 Title: Re: what is "miner" Post by: byt411 on March 09, 2014, 02:19:49 PM 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. Title: Re: what is "miner" Post by: roslinpl on March 09, 2014, 10:37:56 PM 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. Title: Re: what is "miner" Post by: jolliver on March 18, 2014, 06:19:21 AM Origin: Middle English minour ; from Old French ; from miner, to mine
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