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@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ is not the creation of new bitcoin. That's the incentive system. Mining
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is the mechanism by which bitcoin's _security_ is _decentralized_.
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Miners validate new transactions and record them on the global ledger. A
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Miners record new transactions on the global ledger. A
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new block, containing transactions that occurred since the last block,
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is "mined" every 10 minutes on average, thereby adding those
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transactions to the blockchain. Transactions that become part of a block
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