An exploration of bitcoin mining practices: Miners’ trust challenges and motivations
Bitcoin blockchain technology is a distributed ledger of nodes authorizing transactions between anonymous parties. Its key actors are miners using computational power to solve mathematical problems for validating transactions. By sharing blockchain’s characteristics, mining is a decentralized, trans...
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Association for Computing Machinery
2019
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