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CONGRATS TO LUCKY WINNER- DORIS! Guess what?! Lori Wilde , the author of The Sweethearts’ Knitting Club is guest blogging here today! You can read more about the book and my review at  A Bookworm Reads . Too impatient to click thru? In that case, The Sweethearts’ Knitting Club ( Avon, 400p, Isbn-9780061808890 ) is the kind of cozy romance you’ll want to curl up with during the holidays…and never put down. Authors are often asked where they get their ideas. We hate that question. I contend we’re being asked the wrong question. I think the real question is: How do you turn those millions of ideas into a cohesive story? Because let’s face it, truly ideas are everywhere. All you have to do is turn on the television or get on Twitter or observe your friends and family. There’s no lack of ideas. The bare spark for The Sweethearts’ Knitting Club started from a comment I heard an editor make at a conference. She said nothing does it for her like bad boys. Readers se...

Bitcoin mining is in short the hash-rate race between power-hungry computers. These machines require a lot of electric power to continue solving/computing complex mathematical puzzles. These cryptographic puzzles are created using memory intensive algorithm called the Proof-of-Work (PoW). Miners validate transactions and add the next block on blockchain, thus keeping the system secure and running. As a reward the miners collect $1000-$3000 in transaction fees from all validated transactions inside a block and also wins 12.5 BTC for mining the block. 2.24 2.23 2.22 2.21 2.20 2.19 2.18 2.17 2.16 2.15 2.14 2.13 2.12 2.11 2.10 2.9 2.8 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 Due to increased competition, the difficulty of mining has increased to such an extent that now you require specialized hardware to achieve enough hash rate to at least participate in the system. In 2009, 100 bitcoins could easily be mined within a day using CPU cycles of a simple home PC, but then as mining diffi...