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