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Like the prospectors during the California gold rush of 1849, today s cryptocurrency miners seek gold from them thar hills, and this time those hills just happen to be in Wyoming.
Mining for cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin, doesn t require a pickax and a gold pan. Instead, cryptocurrency miners earn Bitcoin by verifying Bitcoin transactions, such as buying and selling.
How is Bitcoin mined?
In a process conceived by Bitcoin s anonymous founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, miners complete blocks of transactions on the
blockchain, which is an electronic ledger.
Bitcoin miners verify transactions, making sure that the same coin has not been bought or sold twice. The transactions are in 1 MB (megabyte)
Estonia and Colombia Are Trying To Stop A Copyright Claim Over Bitcoin’s White Paper Cam Wilson
As usual, there is drama in the cryptocurrency community. Someone claiming to be the founder of Bitcoin is claiming copyright over its white paper and the governments of Estonia and Colombia are trying to do something about it.
Last week, lawyers on Craig Wright s behalf began sending copyright infringement notices to Bitcoin websites.
Wright, who is an Australian computer scientist, has claimed for a long time to be the anonymous founder of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto. Most consider this claim to be false.
The copyright notices were for Nakamoto s Bitcoin white paper, the founding document that outlined how the cryptocurrency would work.