How does crypto mining works? a guide

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Mining is a process of securing bitcoin transaction, generally with mining process It's likely very difficult for blockchain network to be tempered on from any external source which makes it anti hack, since mining process is not handle by one server or miner it's a long continuous connected link process of several mining software known as mining device which are used for generating blockchain transactions for miners reward, in its chain of link of transaction this makes it very difficult for hackers to tap into the blockchain network.

Just like the banking system when someone send bitcoin to friend/family miners are tasked with making sure your sent bitcoin transaction are transparently sent to the desired destination in block and added to a public record called blockchain.

All mining activities are interconnected with different mining ASIC mining software (Application Specific Integrated Circuits). which are used for processing the blockchain transaction.

Approximately in every ten minutes a block transaction process on the bitcoin blockchain, block transaction are handled by miners to other miners to prove/verify these blocks have been processed, a little task which is known as PoW (prove of work) this is why bitcoin blockchain is dependent on PoW in other for transactions to be processed and confirmed on the block.
For a new block to be created miners need to solve some puzzle which will require the use of computers these device ( ASIC mining software) will create the new block for the miners and also verify them which will then be sent to other miners to check if the solved block are correct for confirmation.
these process is a continuous process which goes on non stop.

All these process which involves solving puzzle sending block transaction are all done by specific designed computers.

The puzzles are solved using brute force trial and error. There are scads of combinations tried every second from miners all around the world. In fact, a single miner will be computing trillions of “hashes” per second. You may hear the word “hash” or “hashing” being thrown around quite a bit in Bitcoin conversations. (You don’t really need to know what a mathematical hash function is, but essentially it is the math puzzle I am referring to).

In the recent days of bitcoin inception mining could be done using CPU computer with much advancements normal computers couldn't perform such task it was then done by GUP to FGPAs and finally to ASICs which means ordinary computers are very much slow in solving block transaction.

Since the blocks are chained together, this is what creates the security for Bitcoin.

The average time between each block is ten minutes, there is also block difficulty which depends on transaction hashrate which mean number of transaction received by the miners which should by solve miners could be experiencing mining difficulty base on number of block transaction which will need to be solved.
There are no specific location for miners once you have the required mining device you can setup your mining rig and start getting your block transaction although basic knowledge will be required to run such device.

Reference

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bitcoin-mining.asp#:~:text=Bitcoin%20mining%20is%20the%20process,to%20speed%20up%20mining%20operations.

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