Learning crypto from scratch — Day 13 📚
Who keeps a blockchain running?
In $BTC, miners use computing power to validate transactions and add new blocks.
In networks like $ETH and $SOL , this job is done by validators, who participate by following a different mechanism and putting assets as collateral.
Different systems, same goal: for the network to be able to agree without depending on a central authority.
Tomorrow: how do they manage to get so many computers to agree?
#LearnCrypto
Who keeps a blockchain running?
In $BTC, miners use computing power to validate transactions and add new blocks.
In networks like $ETH and $SOL , this job is done by validators, who participate by following a different mechanism and putting assets as collateral.
Different systems, same goal: for the network to be able to agree without depending on a central authority.
Tomorrow: how do they manage to get so many computers to agree?
#LearnCrypto