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Blockchain Basics

On next chapter, there is an opportunity for you to see your laptop's capacity to solve the puzzle compared to the entire capacity of the Bitcoin network. Spoiler alert: Your laptop is the tortoise and the Bitcoin network is the hare—a very, very fast hare.

It probably took your single computer only seconds to find the right nonce in the last chapter. It takes around 10 minutes for the enormous computation power that exists on the Bitcoin network to solve the mining puzzle today. 

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