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January 18, 2019, 04:10:19 PM |
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I mean that’s why the network might only be used only for particular use cases.
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January 18, 2019, 04:11:05 PM |
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Now what if we talk about the miners working with ethereum
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January 18, 2019, 04:18:06 PM |
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Today, miners play an important role in making sure ethereum works.
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January 18, 2019, 04:25:26 PM |
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This role isn’t immediately obvious, though.
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January 18, 2019, 04:26:07 PM |
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Many new users think that the sole purpose of mining is to generate ethers in a way that doesn’t require a central issuer. This is true.
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January 18, 2019, 04:30:35 PM |
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Ethereum’s tokens are created through the process of mining at a rate of 5 ether per mined block.
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January 18, 2019, 04:31:12 PM |
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But mining also has another at least as important role.
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January 18, 2019, 04:31:53 PM Last edit: January 24, 2019, 02:00:50 PM by Pakhi22 |
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January 18, 2019, 04:40:48 PM |
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They ensure that money isn’t created out of thin air, and that users don’t cheat and spend their money more than once.
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January 18, 2019, 04:41:11 PM |
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Blockchains, though, introduce an entirely new way of record-keeping, one where the entire network, rather than an intermediary, verifies transactions and adds them to the public ledger.
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January 18, 2019, 04:50:43 PM |
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Mining is one innovation that makes decentralized record-keeping possible.
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January 18, 2019, 04:50:56 PM |
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Pretty much we have to understand it like this: Although a ‘trustless’ or ‘trust-minimizing’ monetary system is the goal, someone still needs to secure the financial records, ensuring that no one cheats.
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January 18, 2019, 04:51:46 PM |
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Usually, banks are in charge of keeping accurate records of transactions.
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January 18, 2019, 04:53:06 PM |
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Miners come to consensus about the transaction history while preventing fraud (notably the double spending of ethers) – an interesting problem that hadn’t been solved in decentralized currencies before proof-of-work blockchains.
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January 18, 2019, 04:54:22 PM |
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Although ethereum is looking into other methods of coming to consensus about the validity of transactions, mining currently holds the platform together.
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January 18, 2019, 04:55:07 PM |
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And now, how mining works these days?
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January 18, 2019, 05:00:20 PM |
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Today, ethereum’s mining process is almost the same as bitcoin’s.
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January 18, 2019, 05:30:02 PM |
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For each block of transactions, miners use computers to repeatedly and very quickly guess answers to a puzzle until one of them wins.
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January 18, 2019, 05:31:14 PM |
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More specifically, the miners will run the block’s unique header metadata (including timestamp and software version) through a hash function (which will return a fixed-length, scrambled string of numbers and letters that looks random), only changing the ‘nonce value’, which impacts the resulting hash value.
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January 18, 2019, 05:35:43 PM |
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This is the important part of the article so please pay attention:
If the miner finds a hash that matches the current target, the miner will be awarded ether and broadcast the block across the network for each node to validate and add to their own copy of the ledger.
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