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Miners compete to solve a cryptographic puzzle that secures the network without needing trust in any central authority, while wasting energy only on computational effort they cannot reuse for other tasks. The difficulty adjusts automatically so blocks appear roughly every ten minutes regardless of how many computers join or leave the race.
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2026-09-23 02:03:09 UTCEvent JSON
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