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I finished college several years ago in electrical engineering. Now I'm going back to do a few online classes in cryptography and programming.
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I am not new to bitcoin at all. I've been slowly investing in bitcoins since the start of the year and have frequented this forum fairly often. I have decided that I would also like to contribute to this community.
I understand that the bitcoins depend on a public ledger which is agreed upon and distributed through a peer-to-peer network. Bitcoins are transferred from address to address by signing a transfer statement with an address's private key. Bitcoin minters gather these transactions and calculate their hash (plus a seed) in order to discover the next block in the ledger. Once a block is found, the transactions become part of the official ledger which is distributed to all the peers.
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Welcome aboard! ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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