Can you mine Bitcoin with home PC?

Although it was initially possible to mine Bitcoin using laptops and desktops, the growing mining difficulty as well as the advent of Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASICs) hardware created specifically for bitcoin mining has made it all but impossible to profitably mine Bitcoin at home using the processing …

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How do miners solve a block?

To solve a block, miners modify non-transaction data in the current block such that their hash result begins with a certain number (according to the current Difficulty, covered below) of zeroes . If you manually modify the string until you get a 0… result, you’ll soon see why this is considered “Proof of Work!”

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