Thread: wtf bitcoin ?
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Old 07-05-2011, 12:45 PM  
Serge Litehead
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Originally Posted by seeandsee View Post
i really dont understand what do they do with your pc when you dig bitcoins?
when someone sends bitcoins, miners do the dirty work to secure and process that transaction along with others so it can reach the destination, for this miners get rewarded with new bitcoins. with time reward will be split in half and again and again until some point reward will be very close to zero but never reach it, by that time miners will be mainly rewarded by transaction fees for their job.
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