The difficulty is a measure of how hard it is to produce a Proof-of-Work, required to publish a block to the blockchain. Bitcoin's difficulty updates periodically so that Bitcoin blocks arrive every 10 minutes, probabilistically.| River
An Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is a special electronic chip built for exactly one purpose. Bitcoin ASIC miners, the hardware devices that contain these chips, are designed solely to hash blocks in order to find a valid Proof-of-Work.| River
Bitcoin mining is the process of validating transactions and creating new bitcoin. How do miners use computing power to secure the network and earn rewards?| River