Can You Answer This - When You Solve A Digital Currency Equation, What Is The Math For?
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When You Solve A Digital Currency Equation, What Is The Math For?
I get it, you solve the equation, you get a "good cookie" byway of digital currency. But what is the math for? What are you solving the problem for? You get a piece of digital currency but why do the math? Why put together a super computer to solve big equations?
I get it. You are incentivized through fictitious money to do so. But WHY SOLVE THE PROBLEM? WHO GETS THE ANSWER?
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What is the math actually for? Who gets the answer to the equation?
I hear the hash put’s it into ledger stuff all the time.
Who gets the answer to the equation?
It figures out the hash so it can see the transaction and add it to the blockchain. 1st computer to do it gets to add the transaction to the ledger.