Australia is one of the world’s most active countries in Bitcoin mining, with over half a dozen large-scale mines operational. These mines collectively generate around AUD 70 million in revenue each month at current prices. Bitcoin mining verifies and adds transaction records to the public ledger (the blockchain). The mining method involves compiling recent transactions into blocks and trying to solve a computationally tricky puzzle. The first miner to decode the puzzle gets to add the following block of transactions to the blockchain and receives a reward in newly minted bitcoins. According to Business Insider, 90% of all bitcoin ...Read more

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