Bitcoin Mining in 4 Minutes – Computerphile

When a Bitcoin Miner Mines, what is happening? Dr Mike Pound exposes the process..

note: at 3:39 Mike mentions a Bitcoin is mined every ten minutes when it is actually a block that is mined every ten minutes, at time of recording a successful block generates 12.5 new Bitcoins.

Password Cracking: https://youtu.be/7U-RbOKanYs
Onion Routing (TOR): https://youtu.be/QRYzre4bf7I

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