Proof-of-work and mining are important parts of what makes Bitcoin, the largest blockchain by market cap in the world, work.
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00:00 – What is mining?
01:36 – The two main functions of mining
03:18 – What is proof-of-work?
04:02 – What does the proof-of-work hashing algorithm look like?
10:22 – Proof-of-work and mining TLDR
