miners

Noun (1)

miner (plural miners)

1. A person who works in a mine.
   • Near-synonyms: mineworker; mineowner

   Synonyms:

   mineworker, mineowner

2. An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
3. Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
4. Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.
   • The move would have probably prevented Kazakhstan-based miners from accessing the bitcoin network.2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian
5. A person who mines cryptocurrency.
   • The first miner to solve each puzzle would be awarded 50 new bitcoins, and the associated block of transactions would be added to the chain. The difficulty of each puzzle would increase as the number of miners increased, which would keep production to one block of transactions roughly every 10...2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2025

Noun (2)

miner (plural miners)

1. Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.

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