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=== Mining and the Hash Lottery
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Bitcoin mining is an extremely competitive industry.
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Bitcoin mining ((("bitcoins", "mining", "competitiveness of", id="bitcoin-mining-competition")))((("mining", "competitiveness of", id="mining-competitive")))is an extremely competitive industry.
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The hashing power has increased exponentially every year of Bitcoin's
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existence. Some years the growth has reflected a complete change of
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technology, such as in 2010 and 2011 when many miners switched from
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robust overall, as part of a diversified mining ecosystem. As of this
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writing, P2Pool has fallen into disuse, but new protocols such as
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Stratum v2 can allow individual miners to choose the transactions they
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include in their blocks.
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include in their((("bitcoins", "mining", "competitiveness of", startref="bitcoin-mining-competition")))((("mining", "competitiveness of", startref="mining-competitive"))) blocks.
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[[consensus_attacks]]
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=== Hashrate Attacks
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