From 28897ec927a846cad088e3ba794adc47c63408be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "judymcconville@roadrunner.com" Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 15:44:56 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Edited ch10.asciidoc with Atlas code editor --- ch10.asciidoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ch10.asciidoc b/ch10.asciidoc index 3d41941a..690e2875 100644 --- a/ch10.asciidoc +++ b/ch10.asciidoc @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ [TIP] ==== -((("decentralized systems", "purpose of bitcoin mining")))The purpose of mining is not the creation of new bitcoin. That's the incentive system. Mining is the mechanism by which bitcoin's _security_ is _decentralized_. +((("decentralized systems", "bitcoin mining and")))The purpose of mining is not the creation of new bitcoin. That's the incentive system. Mining is the mechanism by which bitcoin's _security_ is _decentralized_. ==== Miners validate new transactions and record them on the global ledger. A new block, containing transactions that occurred since the last block, is "mined" every 10 minutes on average, thereby adding those transactions to the blockchain. Transactions that become part of a block and added to the blockchain are considered "confirmed," which allows the new owners of bitcoin to spend the bitcoin they received in those transactions.