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OK, now I understand mining a bit better. Its a race, with the difficulty tuned to try and make each race last 10 minutes.
by codeulike 13y ago
OK, now I understand mining a bit better. Its a race, with the difficulty tuned to try and make each race last 10 minutes.
- ChrisClark 13y agoNot just to make each race last 10 minutes, but to also make sure it scales with the processing power available. This keeps the transaction history secure because you would need to control immensely more computing power to try and counterfeit the transactions for every 10 minutes back in the past you try to change.