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Re:Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin by seanwilson on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:00PM (#15864437)
> Once a block is found, the miner that found the block will pull as many transactions as possible from the mempool and put them into that block and sign it on the blockchain forever.

Might be a nitpick, but you mean the miner puts as many high value transactions as they can fit into a block and then searches for a valid hash?

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Re:Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin by Klathmon on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:09PM (#15864520)
Yeah that's more correct.

Technically the miner needs to know what they are going to be including in a block when they begin trying to find a valid hash, but for the sake of explanation I generally switch it around for simplicity.

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