Excited to get my #bitaxe gamma running. Side by side with a Supra 401 and an Ultra 205. Months before running bitaxes to learn about mining I had my preconceived notions about what mining is or isn’t but my view on #bitcoin has expanded so much just by playing around with these cool home miners and learning about #hashing. I still have a lot to learn but pretty cool conceptually to actually be hashing.

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Nice. What are some of the things you have learned?

I’ve somewhat learned what a nonce is, I always had this thought that mining is just a random number guessing game which simplistically looking at it it sort of is, but that would imply that there’s a expected outcome which would mean someone knows the solution to the solving the block. I’m no math wiz but finding out that there’s more than one possible solution and that it just has to be a number that produces a hash with the correct or greater number of zeroes (I realize I’m probably butchering this explanation) and that it’s a dynamically engineered system to adjust for however much computational power is pointed at it amazed me. I’m from more of a biology background so learning of a mathematical homeostasis mechanism in place is sort of mind blowing.

¿Has pillado algo?😉