From db4de4949119287c60ea3af40248dcc433df9786 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David A. Harding" Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 12:52:40 -1000 Subject: [PATCH] CH12: miners don't necessary validate --- ch10.asciidoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ch10.asciidoc b/ch10.asciidoc index da3a5e9d..d091e5d7 100644 --- a/ch10.asciidoc +++ b/ch10.asciidoc @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ 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 +Miners record new transactions 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