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Ignore any of the concerns about doing this. If I've got an old laptop laying around, how do I go about mining Bitcoin using Bitcoin Core?

I've just downloaded Bitcoin Core and there doesn't appear to be any way of doing this and I've found no reliable guide online about how to do this. Just lots of nonsense about buying gear or all the hype around it all.

I'm just wanting to do a basic proof of concept so I can understand how it all works for contributing to the network.

It's my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong!) that it's highly unlikely that you will earn any Bitcoins/Satoshis from doing this as you have to hit on that highly unlikely point in time when you actually win the race to compute the calculation etc. I don't really understand how all that works to be fair. I guess what I'm saying is that it's not like you can leave a laptop lying around for 1 hr and see 1 Satoshi deposit into your wallet, and 2 within 2 hrs etc. as a contribution of effort.

Michael Cropper
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  • https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/103212/running-a-full-node-vs-mining –  Mar 03 '21 at 22:34
  • Please ask better questions, use Bitcoin better, can do lot of things.. Mine, Bitcoin Core is is answered 100 times. There are devs who are working day and night to make more things possible. Research, at least search, try, and ask more question about things like: https://medium.com/blockstream/cat-and-schnorr-tricks-ii-2f6ede3d7bb5 or http://bitcoin.sipa.be/miniscript/ –  Mar 03 '21 at 22:39
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    @Prayank You can vote to close as duplicate, no need to downvote. I don't think it's a bad question, just one which has many good answers already. – Pieter Wuille Mar 03 '21 at 22:43
  • Sorry. Tried to upvote again just because you said, couldn't. Will try in few minutes, –  Mar 03 '21 at 22:47
  • You could try mining on Regtest: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/17553/5406 – Murch Mar 03 '21 at 22:49
  • Okay we already have the moderator. Who cares about downvote from me lol –  Mar 03 '21 at 22:58
  • See also [What is the probability of mining a block by a miner controlling a fraction of hashing power?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/96225/13866) – RedGrittyBrick Mar 04 '21 at 11:04

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