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Op zaterdag 23 maart 2013 21:37 schreef Lollertrolle het volgende:Ik zal het maar eerlijk zeggen. Ik snap er geen zak van.
Je laat je computer de hele dag aanstaan zodat het kan gaan "zoeken" naar 1 of ander gecodeerd pakketje waar blijkbaar een bepaalde waarde aan vastkleeft zodat je die ontvangt en waarna je er niks verder mee kunt? Wut?
Wie bepaald dan die waarde en wat heeft de het zoeken voor nut? Iemand gebruikt je computer om berekeningen te doen oid?
Kwestie van vraag en aanbod
A user mining bitcoins is running a software program that searches tirelessly for a solution to a very difficult math problem whose difficulty is precisely known. The difficulty is automatically adjusted regularly so that the number of solutions found globally, by everyone, is constant: an average of 6 per hour. When a solution is found, the user may tell everyone of the existence of this newly found solution, along with other information, packaged together in what is called a "block".
Blocks contain 50 bitcoins at present. This amount, known as the block reward, is an incentive for people to perform the computation work required for generating blocks. Roughly every 4 years, the number of bitcoins that can be "mined" in a block reduces by 50%. Any block that is created by a malicious user that does not follow this rule (or any other rules) will be rejected by everyone else. In the end, no more than 21 million bitcoins will ever exist.
Because the block reward will decrease over the long term, miners will some day instead pay for their hardware and electricity costs by collecting transaction fees. The sender of money may voluntarily pay a small transaction fee which will be kept by whoever finds the next block. Paying this fee will encourage miners to include the transaction in a block more quickly.