{"id":2836,"date":"2024-10-22T10:31:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T10:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2024-10-22T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T10:31:49","slug":"what-is-a-bitcoin-miner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/what-is-a-bitcoin-miner\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 es un minero de Bitcoin?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does it involve any picks, shovels, or caves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bitcoin<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

NOPE.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this lesson, I will explain what a Bitcoin miner is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, we have the Bitcoin network again that contains conflicting transactions mentioned in the example. from the lecci\u00f3n anterior<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some nodes contain a \u201cpurple<\/strong> \u201d transaction while others contain a \u201cred<\/strong> \u201d transaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But both transactions are trying to spend the same bitcoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do the computers come to an AGREEMENT on which transaction is the legit one?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where \u201cmining\u201d<\/strong> comes in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Which<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s go inside this computer and take a deeper look.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Inside<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This node is a \u201cminer<\/strong>\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a Bitcoin miner?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A miner node is a Bitcoin full node that does additional work by confirming<\/em> transactions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All miners are nodes, but not all nodes are miners. A Bitcoin miner can\u2019t operate without running a node. But a full node is not necessarily a miner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While a full node will receive, store and broadcast transactions to other nodes, a miner node will do the same but it will also try to create new blocks<\/strong> of transactions and then attempt to broadcast them to other nodes who will then either accept or reject the new block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you\u2019ll see in the next lesson, due to the way \u201cmining\u201d works, a miner requires the use of specialized hardware<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re curious, here\u2019s an example of a mining machine. Isn\u2019t it beautiful?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Antminer\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How does a Bitcoin miner \u201cmine\u201d?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s now go deeper and take a look inside a miner and see how it \u201cmines\u201d the transactions from the memory pool onto its file (the \u201cblockchain\u201d).
\"Deeper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re now looking inside a miner\u2019s memory pool<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has the purple<\/strong> transaction in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bitcoin<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But with a memory pool, you can have more than one transaction<\/strong> in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let\u2019s pretend there are more fresh transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, this memory pool contains four transactions<\/strong>. (In reality, a memory pool can hold thousands.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bitcoin<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So what does miner do with all these transactions in its memory pool?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will create a container called a \u201ccandidate block<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is just a container for transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The miner will fill this candidate block with transactions from the memory pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a candidate block?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Think of a candidate block as a temporary<\/em> block<\/strong> that\u2019s created using transactions selected from the memory pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This temporary block is called a \u201ccandidate block\u201d because it\u2019s not yet a valid block<\/strong>. Only blocks that have actually been added to the blockchain<\/strong> (which is what the miner is trying to do) are considered valid blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bitcoin<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So what this miner will do is fill this candidate block with transactions<\/strong> from the memory pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bitcoin<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Like so\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bitcoin<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since space is limited, only a limited number of transactions can be included in each block. Miners are incentivized to prioritize the transaction with the highest fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then, it will try and add this \u201cblock\u201d of transactions to the file (the \u201cblockchain\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how does the candidate block actually get added to the blockchain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"How<\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does it involve any picks, shovels, or caves? NOPE. In this lesson, I will explain what a Bitcoin miner is. Here, we have the Bitcoin network again that contains conflicting transactions mentioned in the example. from the previous lesson. Some nodes contain a \u201cpurple \u201d transaction while others contain a \u201cred \u201d transaction. But both transactions are trying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginners-guide-to-bitcoin-mining","category-learn-crypto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}