Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper

Ken Shirriff · 1.5M views · 2014 · 7:52

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Demonstrates the SHA-256 algorithm used in Bitcoin mining manually, highlighting its complexity and impracticality for human execution.

Linked by 19 independent sites, 5 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including vice.com, habr.com, xataka.com, bitcointalk.org, bitcoinmagazine.com.