One last thing: why is it called mining? In the original analogy, people who performed this essential work were compared to gold miners digging the gold out of the ground so that everyone could use it. But in reality, Bitcoin "miners" are just running computer programs on very specialised hardware that automates the process of securing the network. To sum up, this software
- Collects transactions from the network
- Validates them, and doesn't allow conflicting ones
- Puts them into large bundles called blocks
- Computes cryptographic hashes over and over until if finds one "good enough to count"
- Then submits the block to the network, adding it to the block chain and earning a reward in return.
That's mining in a nutshell!
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