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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies - Quiz 5 Problem 2

Which statement about Bitcoin miners is NOT true?

Many miners will consider the climate of an area when setting up mining operations because of the cost of cooling their equipmentWrong
If the global hash rate doubles every two months, a new piece of hardware that a miner buys will find most of the blocks that it ever will mine in the first six months of operationWrong
Bitcoin miners can recoup a reasonable fraction of their initial expenses by selling their ASICs once they are done with them to other users for less computationally intense purposesCorrect
Mining Bitcoin on a modern CPU will yield negligible mining rewardsWrong

Note the tricky part - it is asking for which statement is NOT true!

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