Compass Mining delivers precision infrastructure for serious investors. Real-time analytics, verified hashrate, and transparent payouts — built for scale.
Bitcoin's ledger is secured by Proof-of-Work (PoW) — miners compete to find a nonce that, when hashed with the block header via SHA-256, produces an output below the network's current target. The first miner to solve it broadcasts the block and earns the block reward plus transaction fees.
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) miners are purpose-built silicon optimized exclusively for SHA-256 hashing — orders of magnitude more efficient than general-purpose GPUs or CPUs for this task.
Every 2,016 blocks (~2 weeks), the protocol retargets mining difficulty so the average block interval stays near 10 minutes regardless of how much hashrate joins or leaves the network.
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