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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