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Virgin Bitcoin

Virgin bitcoin is an amount of brand new bitcoin created by a computer that was mining. Mining is a computer process of recording and verifying information on the digital record known as the blockchain. In bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, mining also requires computers compete with each other to solve a complicated math problem. A reward is given to the computer that solved the math problem first and this is known as virgin bitcoin.


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