How Does Crypto Mining Work?
6 min readOct 6, 2021
(Part 3 of A Brief Overview of Cryptocurrency)
Cryptocurrency mining has been a recent source of controversy in the media at the moment. But what is mining, who does it, and what is its purpose? This chapter gives some of the main facts about what mining actually is, who does it, and what these controversial concerns may shape the way cryptocurrencies operate in the future.