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@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ 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 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 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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The miner inputs their candidate into a specially designed algorithm that
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scrambles (or "hashes") the data, producing output that looks nothing
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scrambles((("hash functions"))) (or "hashes") the data, producing output that looks nothing
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like the input data. This _hash_ function will always produce the same
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like the input data. This _hash_ function will always produce the same
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output for the same input--but nobody can predict what the output will
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output for the same input--but nobody can predict what the output will
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look like for a new input, even if it is only slighly different from a
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look like for a new input, even if it is only slighly different from a
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