Showing posts with label Mining. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mining. Show all posts

Starting Bitcoin Mining

  Getting Started   Before you start mining Bitcoin, it is fundamental to have a basic understanding of the evolution of mining and the terms used to describe the different processes. The most important term to know is what "hashing" is and how...

Bitcoin Mining Pool

Mining pools are a way for miners to pool their resources together and share their hashing power while splitting the reward equally according to the amount of shares they contributed to solving a block. A "share" is awarded to members of the mining pool who present a valid...

Bitcoin Mining Hardware

The process of mining Bitcoins has evolved dramatically since their inception in 2009.   At first, miners could only use their central processing unit (CPU) to mine, but this was not very power efficient and bogged down the system resources of the host computer. Miners...

Bitcoin Mining Software

While the actual process of mining is handled by the mining hardware itself, special software is needed to connect your miners to the blockchain and your mining pool as well, if you are part of a mining pool. The software delivers the work to the miners and receives the...