Yeah, I only know the part they play in the process of extending the chain, creating new bitcoin yada yada, but nothing about the software / mining rig config's et cetera.

haha, I was trying to understand more - I'm a complete noob in the mining topic. 😂😂😂 

Natalia

Don't do this to me Natalie, I'm a mere pleb trying to act smart, please enlighten us, I beg you!

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then it gets even more interesting - who wrote those software?

so it seems all the miners need to do is plug the software somewhere, thus the cheaper electricity the better? and what's stopping everyone to be a miner?