How Bitcoin Mines Blocks

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The concept Proof-of-Work secures Bitcoin by making block creation deliberately, verifiably expensive. Miners compete to find a number called a nonce that, when combined with a block's other data (previous block hash, transactions, timestamp) and run through SHA-256, produces a hash falling below a target value — in practice, a hash starting with some number of leading zero bits. There……

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