What is bitcoin?

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Can someone explain to me what bitcoin mining is? I looked it up but still can't find out what it is.

Thanks

Chad
 
A waste of time...

You can find stories of people who have invested thousands on mining rigs, (racks of processors) that they run 24/7

The majority of people barely recover their running costs, nevermind their investment.

And then when you get paid, its not even in a real currency, you have to find people who will take bitcoins as value and exchange them for something you find valuable.
 
What is mining it? What do you have to do?
 
in a nutshel, mining is using your computers processor power to solve complex equations. which result in being rewarded with bitcoins
 
in a nutshel, mining is using your computers processor power to solve complex equations. which result in being rewarded with bitcoins

What are these equations for? What's the point?
Thanks for answering :)

Chad
 
The link cherub gave you has your answers. Take 10 minutes to read it! :)
 
I think the bitcoin market pretty much crashed. It's not worth the time.
 
Hey thanks everyone for the insights. :)
 
Not retards actually. Just posted to say thanks to everyone who participated in this thread. It isn't a method or anything which is not recent anymore. Infact, I have been looking for the merits and demerits of bitcoin for some days. I got the definitions but not the real life experiences before I got this one. Sounds good now?
Retards bumping old posts... ^^
 
Not retards actually. Just posted to say thanks to everyone who participated in this thread. It isn't a method or anything which is not recent anymore. Infact, I have been looking for the merits and demerits of bitcoin for some days. I got the definitions but not the real life experiences before I got this one. Sounds good now?

Definitely but that's not the thing, those insights are dated. The thread is over a year old and a lot has changed.

On the other side, if all you had to say was "Hey thanks everyone for the insights." you could have just pressed the "Thanks" button. It's there for a reason. :D
 
I was drunk hehe :P
Yes, the rates seems be up again, so a bit back dated as I am guessing now.. Still looking for some updated resource on this...
Definitely but that's not the thing, those insights are dated. The thread is over a year old and a lot has changed.

On the other side, if all you had to say was "Hey thanks everyone for the insights." you could have just pressed the "Thanks" button. It's there for a reason. :D
 
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