What is Bitcoin Mining?

Parsh Jain
5 min readMay 26, 2021
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To begin with, Bitcoin mining is an extremely complex process of verifying Bitcoin transactions and storing them in the public blockchain ledger. I want to simplify the concept for you so that you understand it easily as it took me longer than usual to get a hang of it.

Bitcoin is a useful way to spend and send money, but cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin aren’t made for free. They need to be mined which requires immense…

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