Jack Dorsey, CEO of both Twitter and Square, has rapidly climbed the ranks of best-known Bitcoin maximalists in recent years, backing big Bitcoin-centric projects, espousing his love for the original cryptocurrency’s whitepaper, and even saying he believes Bitcoin can bring about world peace. Now he’s added another piece to his Bitcoin resume: he’s mining it, too.
Yesterday, in response to a tweet from another user about getting into Bitcoin mining, Dorsey wrote, “I’m trying mining with Compass Mining too…” He didn’t elaborate on the note, but Compass shared the word with its 25,000+ followers with a retweet of Dorsey’s comment.
Bitcoin is mined through an energy-intensive process called proof of work, in which computers compete to perform an array of complex mathematical equations in exchange for cryptocurrency rewards. The work itself is arbitrary: miners are simply expending computing power in exchange for a potential reward, which can be incredibly valuable given
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