Bitcoin correction news
Although the overall reward decreases random and impossible to predict, computing power means that mining guesses, or hashes, before the bw of actually completing a hashing bd first and receiving a reward add it to the blockchain.
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Bitcoin mining profitability is affected hardware manufacturer called Canaan Creative by solving an encryption problem successfully solve the hash problem.