How does Arweave mining work?

Here’s how it works: The blockweave is maintained by miners who provide disk space and replicate the data stored in the network in order to gain AR tokens . In order to mine or verify a new block, miners must provide cryptographic proof that they can access the blockweave’s recall block — hence, Proof of Access.

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Is Arweave proof of work?

Areweave’s design also means that the way it checks the accuracy of transactions is different than most cryptocurrencies. Where Bitcoin asks computers on its network to compete to solve a mathematical puzzle — a process called proof-of-work — Arweave uses a different mechanism called “proof-of-access.”

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