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Blockchain Quick Reference
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Blockchain Quick Reference

by Brenn Hill, Samanyu Chopra, Paul Valencourt
August 2018
Beginner to intermediate
350 pages
11h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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CPU-based mining

This was the first type of mining available in the official Bitcoin client. During the initial days of Bitcoin, home-based computers were able to mine coins. With the advent of more powerful and specialized hardware, Bitcoin mining is no longer preferred for mining Bitcoins. Other coins still support CPU mining, but as the coins' difficulty grows with time, mining of those types of coins also becomes infeasible.

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