The Bitcoin Mining Dude #6/13

The Bitcoin Mining Dude In this piece, the Dude is virtually giving a "life" to the process behind the bitcoin mining algorithm. During this loop, every steps are made salient by a specific move. In the lower right, is the mempool. Here it's literally a Meme Pool, with rare pepe cards inside validated transactions, like fishes waiting to get caught. The miner gathers the transactions, hash them and dispose them near the block he’s assembling. Then he hashes all the transaction merkle root tree into one main hash. Note that the future block contains something already : the hash of the entire previous block in the bitcoin chain. Once the transactions hash is in place, he checks the clo...View all