Check any mining offer Five questions before you pay anyone

A Melanin Academy lesson for Tester accounts and higher. Sign in with an eligible account to read it.

Illustration The flyer and the lens are a picture of checking an offer, not any real offer.

Data Bitcoin’s record, to scale

The layers are Bitcoin’s reward eras, to scale: each gold vein is half the one below it. The base layer began in 2009; the thin top layer is the era still being laid.

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Where to go next

How mining works

Why a found block is the only place new coins come from.

Mining words, explained

Plain definitions of the words you will meet in any offer.

Keep your keys private. Check reward records against actual transaction outputs and wallet receipts.