The simplest answer to the question "What is Mining?" Is that it is a process in which crypto-miners use their computers to generate a digital currency, with the help of a specialized code, and the process is called mining because "finding" a new battle is equally difficult as it used to be to find a piece of gold. Namely, the computer programs of the users solve a series of problems in order to keep the network safe, thus investing energy (which is neither small nor cheap) in the whole process, and thus earning their crop fragment.
This process, of course, requires certain components, so Nvidia has one of the best independent graphics cards on the market - the Tesla V100, which costs as much as $ 8,000 and is not intended for gamers, and ordinary users, but for workstations and servers, for AI and deep learning, and although this is not the primary function, it can also be used for mining.
Anyone who owns any computer thought that he could become a digital miner, but the process of mining at the moment is quite difficult. Initially, only a few thousand people were interested in crypts, so everyone who owned a more powerful home computer in their free time could miners.
I wish i had the extra cash to build a mining rig, this is something i have debated on for some time now.
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