How does mining work?

The process of mining explained here is applicable to every miner on the network and every miner keeps executing the tasks mentioned here regularly.

Miners are always looking forward to mining new blocks, and are also listening actively to receive new blocks from other miners. They are also listening for new transactions to store in the transaction pool. Miners also spread the incoming transactions to other connected nodes after validation. As mentioned before, at some point, the miner collects all transactions from the transaction pool. This activity is done by all miners.

The miner constructs a new block and adds all transactions to it. Before adding these transactions, it will check if any of the transactions are ...

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