Comment by [deleted] on 16/12/2017 at 05:56 UTC*

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View submission: /r/Bitcoin FAQ - Newcomers please read

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Comment by nishitd at 18/12/2017 at 17:09 UTC

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It is random math by design. If you use a hard problem, any hard problem, you can game the computation by your knowledge of that problem. Bitcoin system does not want that, they specifically want every miner to have equal chance depending just on hardware, nothing else.