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Can Ethereum Be Mined With CPU?

Yes, Ethereum can be mined with CPU. Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of fraud or third party interference.

These apps run on a custom built blockchain, an enormously powerful shared global infrastructure that can move value around and represent the ownership of property. This enables developers to create markets, store registries of debts or promises, move funds in accordance with instructions given long in the past (like a will or a futures contract) and many other things that have not been invented yet, all without a middle man or counterparty risk.

The Ethereum network is kept running by computers all over the world. In order to reward the computational costs of both processing the contracts and securing the network, there is a reward that is given to the computer that was able to create the latest block on the chain.

Every 15 seconds, on average, a new block including transactions is added to the blockchain through the process of mining.

NOTE: WARNING: Mining Ethereum with a CPU is a very inefficient process. It is incredibly slow, and it will require a lot of electricity to make it worthwhile. Furthermore, it is very likely that the costs associated with mining Ethereum with a CPU will far outweigh any potential profits. Therefore, mining Ethereum with a CPU should be avoided at all costs.

In order to be rewarded with ETH, miners need to solve computational puzzles called “proof-of-work” problems. ETH miners are rewarded based on their share of work done, rather than their share of the total number of blocks mined.

The higher percentage of work done by a miner relative to other miners, the more ETH they are rewarded.

The amount of ETH rewarded also varies based on which mining pool an individual miner joins. A mining pool is a group of miners who come together in order to increase their chances of finding blocks and receiving rewards.

When a block is found by a mining pool, the block reward is split among all members of the pool according to their contributed mining power (hashrate).

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