Can Anyone Mine Bitcoin, and What Is Mining as a Service?

Once your attention flips from the dramatic drops and rises in bitcoin’s value and you’ve gotten over the marketing hype about blockchains and ICOs, your thoughts may eventually turn to how the whole thing works. Terms like “bitcoin mining” and “digital gold” conjure up images of men with hardhats descending into dimly-lit caves, but that’s obviously not how this commodity is mined. That begs the question of how it is. Can anyone mine bitcoin? And what is MaaS? Bitcoin Mining Basics We know that it doesn’t take a flashlight and a pick to mine bitcoin. A computer science degree and