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@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ _consensus_ dermining what is valid. This delicate balance provides
security for Bitcoin without a central authority.
Mining is designed to be a decentralized lottery. Each miner can create
their own lottery ticket by creating a _candidate block_ that includes
their own lottery ticket by creating ((("candidate blocks")))a _candidate block_ that includes
the new transactions they want to mine plus some additional data fields.
The miner inputs their candidate into a specially designed algorithm that
scrambles((("hash functions"))) (or "hashes") the data, producing output that looks nothing