What is Bitcoin Mining

Bitcoin mining is the method through which each and every transaction is validated and added to the blockchain or the public ledger. It is also the process by which new Bitcoin tokens are released. Those having internet access and appropriate hardware can take part in the mining process. Bitcoin mining includes consolidating latest transactions into specific blocks and attempting to resolve a computationally challenging equation.

The miner who solves the equation first gets to save the subsequent blocks on the blockchain and eventually claim mining rewards. In fact, these rewards that incentivize mining, continue to serve as the processing fees linked with the transactions arranged in a block as well as the freshly released BTC or Bitcoin tokens. During Bitcoin mining, the mining hardware runs a hashing function (that is, two rounds of SHA256) on a block header. For every new hash that is worked on, the Bitcoin mining software will make use of a completely different number (known as the nonce) as one random component of the block header.