Lecture 5 — Bitcoin Mining

Fifth lecture of the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies online course.
For the accompanying textbook, including the free draft version, see: http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/
In this lecture (click the time to jump to the section):
- The task of Bitcoin miners 0:15
- Mining hardware 10:17
- Energy consumption & ecology 33:38
- Mining pools 50:16
- Mining incentives and strategies 1:04:29
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