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Bitcoin mining is the process of adding records of a new transaction to the Blockchain - the public ledger of all transactions that have ever taken place in the Bitcoin network. New transactions are added in batches called “blocks†roughly every 10 minutes, hence the name Blockchain. The ledger is needed for the nodes of the Bitcoin network to always be able to confirm valid transactions. In order to become a Bitcoin miner for more details - http://btcminespool.com/
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Bitcoin works differently from traditional currencies. Where dollars and pounds are handled by banks and financial institutions which collectively confirm when transactions occur, Bitcoin operates on the basis of a public ledger system. In order for transactions to be confirmed — to avoid the same Bitcoin from being spent twice, for example — a number of Bitcoin nodes, operated by miners around the world, need to give it their seal of approval.
In the earliest days of Bitcoin, mining was done with CPUs from normal desktop computers