What is Bitcoin Mining? (In Plain English)

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Published 2018-07-12

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Bitcoin mining is the process of updating the ledger of Bitcoin transactions known as the blockchain. Mining is done by running extremely powerful computers (known as ASICs) that race against other miners in an attempt to guess a specific number.

The first miner to guess the number gets to update the ledger of transactions and also receives a reward of newly minted Bitcoins (currently the reward is 12.5 Bitcoins).

Today, in order to be profitable with Bitcoin mining you need to invest heavily in equipment, cooling and storage. It’s not possible to mine profitably with a PC or a GPU at home. You can calculate your profitability using a Bitcoin mining calculator.

0:20 - Bitcoin mining in a nutshell
3:13 - Mining difficulty and block time
4:22 - Evolution of Bitcoin mining hardware
6:30 - Bitcoin mining pools
7:24 - Is Bitcoin mining profitable?
10:41 - Other types of mining
13:14 - Frequently asked Questions
15:20 - Conclusion

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All Comments (20)

@miller58_49 yesterday

It’s high time you start talking about Btc Cloud Stack
@AmbroseSinclair-yn8rl 13 days ago

What is the best strategy to succeed in the market now for someone with more or less than $10k
@sandeepozarde2820 3 years ago

Quick questions: 1. Why do miners need to solve complex computational math problems? 2. Who create these puzzles? 3. For whom they are solving these maths problem? — it’s like I pay money to buy Pizza, here am solving the puzzle but why? Why puzzle? 4. Creator of puzzle will get what? 5. Is there any intrinsic value attached to crypto currency? or it’s all notional? — we still need fiat currency to buy bitcoins right? like to buy gold you need fiat money — same fiat money is used to buy bitcoins right? then what’s the difference here? it’s like buying a property or gold, now we have digital money, but I cannot buy bitcoins without fiat money.
@johnstanley7874 4 months ago

Watching this in 2024. Bought 2 Bitcoins in 2015 for $250 USD each, paid for a lakers game with 1 bitcoin, couldn't be bothered to use the other.. glad I forgot I had it till 2023,
@lonestarr1707 4 years ago

Ok now I need to find a video that explains this video
@rosenskietolentino8420 2 years ago

Now this is probably the best beginner-friendly explanation out there, kudos to your team
@KevonialJemonathoy 3 years ago

I mined a coin yesterday 👍 good luck fellow miners
@Shemdoupe 1 year ago

The difficulty adjustment is so freaking genius
@tjedwards4254 3 years ago

I'll never be sober enough to understand this.
@faizaniqbal1683 4 years ago

I wish that some day I could talk so politely like him.
@planetkaren4243 2 years ago

Me : watched the entire video carefully Also me : wait what ?
@user-to8eq5iw4s 1 year ago

Bro I loved this video SO MUCH. I really hope you do more
@nikopikox 4 years ago

You have a serious knack for speaking and presentation
@lamarlamar2413 4 years ago

Im learning bitcoin through this guy, when i was confused as hell on other utube videos, thanks man.
@TarunRajput-uo1cj 9 days ago

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@abrahamofek4485 2 years ago

Thanks, it was the most enlightens lecture so far
@slickxbt 4 years ago

This is the video I was looking for to explain this to my dad. Great video!
@modoochris5824 3 years ago

Hmm So interesting! Been thankful for Bitcoin since the very start! Grateful
@ChequeBlinks-xi9vo 1 year ago

This video makes me to understand it better thanks a lot 🙏