In this video, I explain what a Bitcoin node does, and what a Bitcoin miner does, and why a miner doesn’t have to be a node (and why a node does not need to contain a miner).
MIT MAS.S62 Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design, Spring 2018 Instructor: Tadge Dryja View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/MAS-S62S18 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61KHzhg3JIJdK08JLSlcLId Future developments including block / committed bloom filters, sharding, accumulators and UTXO commitments are covered. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu