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Desk Miner 101 · 03 · 25s

Why is it called mining?

The digging is mathematical: repeated work to find a valid result.

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Original English transcript

It's called Bitcoin mining. So where's the shovel?

StarMiner sent me this one, and it doesn't dig.

Gold miners dig through rock to find something rare.

Bitcoin miners dig through numbers instead.

Whoever finds the next block gets new bitcoin as the reward.

That's the mining part. The digging is math.

And my little miner digs for every block.

Solo mining does not guarantee rewards.

Follow for more desk miner basics.

Solo mining does not guarantee rewards. StarMiner is a selected client; product and partnership credits remain in the original videos.