broadmode on Nostr: #Bitcoin mining doesn't work by "solving complex math equations". Better to think of ...
#Bitcoin mining doesn't work by "solving complex math equations".
Better to think of miners as engaged in a computationally expensive guessing game to determine the winning hash needed to write the next block in the timechain.
To normies, it might make more sense to conceptualize proof of work as miners "rapidly generating large, expensive guesses" until, by way of hashing, the winning guess is found to "unlock" the privilege to write the next block.
Guessing game > solving math equations
Better to think of miners as engaged in a computationally expensive guessing game to determine the winning hash needed to write the next block in the timechain.
To normies, it might make more sense to conceptualize proof of work as miners "rapidly generating large, expensive guesses" until, by way of hashing, the winning guess is found to "unlock" the privilege to write the next block.
Guessing game > solving math equations
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