We are all nodes: An explanation of how Avalanche will work on BCHA, plus a thought experiment

読了時間: 5 Let’s talk about nodes. For those who don’t know, nodes are what we call the computers that participate in all the various Bitcoin networks. They are distributed throughout the world and connected to one another through the internet. Their job is to validate transactions and blocks and propagate that information to other nodes. This enables the network to relay, or route, transactions all over the world. But in order for those transactions to get confirmed in a block, that work can only be done by special mining nodes. These miners help secure the network by supplying hashpower and bundling transactions from the mempool into blocks. This process of putting transactions […]