On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 01:03:18PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > I've never understood the underlying concept of bitcoin/xmr/whatever > mining. Currency (money) is usually tied, ultimately, to some physical > thing. This just seems nebulous. Are they using our systems to come up > with better cryptography? I just don't get it. The basic idea of cryptocurrency is that instead of "some physical thing", they are tied to a different limited resource: compute time. Hence, the "mining". -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
