On the other hand, for Bitcoin to incentivize a self-selecting group of global volunteers, known as miners, to deploy capital into the mining machines that validate and secure bitcoin transactions, there needs to be a native asset that can be paid out to the miners for their work. The native asset builds out support for the service from the bottom up in a truly decentralized manner. Public blockchains are not so much databases as they are system architectures spawned from the bottom up to orchestrate the creation of globally decentralized digital services. Over time, miner compensation will
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