Long ago, when bitcoins were worth pennies, and the decision task did not require iron huge capacity, any graphics card could without problems find the right solution, and the miners just did what I got it for blocks. But as time went on, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies started to go up, look for new units has become more difficult, therefore, to cope with the search became more difficult, but the reward has increased. Ordinary computers stopped as well to solve the tasks, so the miners decided to join forces and have created mining pools, which we have already mentioned earlier.
As we already know, each new block contains recent transactions. In addition, it has the task, based on information from previous block — this is done in order to eliminate the possibility of breaking the chain or substitution of a block but the calculations become more complicated.
“All members of the pool looking for the solution to one problem, every card makes it apart from others. It is important to understand that even the most weak computer can find a solution, good luck there not been canceled. But if you collect a pool of 10,000 cards, the problem will be solved as nuts,” explained the expert 2bitcoin.ru.
Mining pool receives solutions from all computing devices connected to it simultaneously checks if any of them are data solution for the next block. If any, the pool receives a reward which is then shared between the participants of the process and is paid to them in the wallets. Of course, more is the one who put in more effort. Plus the fact that even a weak computing device has a chance mined block, and its owner will eventually receive a reward. For example, in the Bitcoin network is 12.5 BTC, Ethereum network — 5 ETH.
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Vyacheslav Larionov