What terms refer to the process of mining new Bitcoin in the network?
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- Block reward: The Bitcoin reward that is given to the miner who successfully mines a block. - Difficulty: A measure of how difficult it is to mine a block. The difficulty is adjusted every 2016 blocks to keep the average block time at 10 minutes. - Hash rate: A measure of the computing power that is being used to mine Bitcoin. - Mining pool: A group of miners who pool their resources to increase their chances of mining a block. - Nonce: A random number that is used to create a unique hash for a block. The nonce is incremented until a valid hash is found. - Proof of Work: The algorithm that is used to mine Bitcoin. Proof of Work requires miners to solve a complex mathematical puzzle in order to add a block to the blockchain.