When it comes to Bitcoin, there are a lot of different ways that people can choose to use it. Some people use it as an investment, while others use it as a way to purchase goods and services.
There is also a small group of people who use Bitcoin as a way to send and receive money around the world. However, there is one group of people who are using Bitcoin in a very different way, and that is the group known as Bitcoin miners.
Bitcoin miners are people who use their computer hardware to verify transactions on the Bitcoin network. In return for their work, they are rewarded with newly minted Bitcoins.
While most people only ever see the end result of what miners do, the process of mining is actually quite complex. In order to understand how mining works, it is first necessary to understand the basics of how the Bitcoin network operates.
The Bitcoin network is a decentralized network of computers all over the world that are connected to each other through the Internet. Every computer on the network has a copy of the Bitcoin blockchain, which contains all of the information about every single Bitcoin transaction that has ever taken place.
When someone wants to send Bitcoins to someone else, they create a transaction and broadcast it out to the network.
Miners then take these transactions and group them together into something called a block. Once a block has been verified as being valid, it is then added to the end of the blockchain.
In order for a block to be added to the blockchain, however, it must first be verified by miners. The process of verifying a block is called mining, and it is how new Bitcoins are created.
The way that miners verify blocks is by solving a complex mathematical problem that is associated with that particular block. The first miner who solve the problem gets to add the block to the blockchain and receive their reward of newly minted Bitcoins.
Because there is a competition among miners to add blocks to the blockchain, not all blocks are added immediately. Instead, each block has what is called a timestamp, which shows when it was added to the chain.
The timestamp allows miners to know which blocks came before and after another block. This ensure that blocks are added in chronological order and that no one can go back and try to add an older block that has already been verified by other miners.
In order for a miner to verify a block, they must do two things: find out what transactions are included in that particular block and then solve the mathematical problem associated with it.
The first part – finding out which transactions are included in the block – is relatively easy. All transactions are publicly broadcasted out across the network, so any miner can see them.
The second part – solving the mathematical problem associated with the block – is where things get more complicated. The mathematical problems associated with each block become increasingly difficult as more and more blocks are added to the blockchain because miners need to make sure that they take longer than 10 minutes on average to solve each one.
This difficulty ensures that new blocks are only added approximately every 10 minutes and also serves as an inflationary mechanism since there will only ever be 21 million Bitcoins created (since each time a new block is mined, more Bitcoins are created). As you can see, mining requires both computational power and electricity in order for miners to be able verify blocks and earn their rewards.
Now that we understand how mining works, we can answer our original question: Is Bitcoin BEP2 different from Bitcoin? The answer is no; Bitcoin BEP2 is exactly same as Bitcoin except for one key difference: instead of being rewarded with newly minted Bitcoins for verifying blocks, miners on the BEP2 network are rewarded with BEP2 tokens. Other than that difference, everything else about BEP2 – from how transactions workto how blocks are verified – is exactly same as Bitcoin.