Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?

Re:Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block? by axitanull on Monday February 26, 2018 @08:36PM (#16470493)

Understanding is one thing, explaining in layman or easy to undertand terms is another, and sometimes it takes a lot of effort.

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Re:Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block? by anonytrary on Monday February 26, 2018 @09:12PM (#16470623)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjHJ7FmV0M4

You guys would love Richard Feynman.

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Re:Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block? by TangoTrotFox on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:22AM (#16471662)

Another resource there: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

That collection is a series of lectures from Feynman, and his characteristic clarity, on physics across the breadth of all major topics. It's quite amazing to realize how little you, in general, truly understand even really basic concepts like the conservation laws until you read the writings of a person who did genuinely understand what he was talking about and could share that insight in such a uniquely effective way.

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Re:Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block? by wickawic on Monday February 26, 2018 @08:56PM (#16470572)

Explaining is usually more difficult than understanding, as well.

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Re:Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block? by southpawflo on Monday February 26, 2018 @11:40PM (#16471114)

I've had multiple teachers tell me that if you can't explain something you don't completely understand it yet. grok what I'm saying? :)

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Re:Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block? by nostalgiac on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @12:32AM (#16471295)

I've heard this a few times but thoroughly disagree.

Being able to explain/teach something to others is a very different skill to understanding it and isn't compulsory.

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