{"id":1679,"date":"2023-05-12T21:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T21:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/wolfram-u\/?post_type=courses&#038;p=1679"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:53:40","slug":"introductory-concepts-blockchain-mining-fin043","status":"publish","type":"courses","link":"https:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/wolfram-u\/courses\/finance\/introductory-concepts-blockchain-mining-fin043\/","title":{"rendered":"Introductory Concepts of Blockchain Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This lesson explores the details of how and why blockchains are mined. Topics include the components of a Bitcoin block, cryptographic hashes that constrain the system and a toy blockchain example. Learn about Wolfram Language blockchain functions through generating, reading and modifying example blocks in a chain.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This lesson explores how and why blockchains are mined.","protected":false},"featured_media":1783,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"course_format":[22],"class_list":["post-1679","courses","type-courses","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/wolfram-u\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/courses\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/wolfram-u\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/courses"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/wolfram-u\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/courses"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/wolfram-u\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/courses\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4528,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/wolfram-u\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/courses\/1679\/revisions\/4528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/wolfram-u\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/wolfram-u\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"course_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/wolfram-u\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course_format?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}