miners

miners

Refers to an individual, group, or entity that participates in the process of cryptocurrency mining. Miners are essential contributors to the security, validation, and integrity of decentralized blockchain networks. Their primary role is to verify and add new transactions to the blockchain while competing to solve mathematical puzzles, in order to create new blocks and earn rewards.

The CryptoCurrency Security Standard (CCSS) has been updated to version 9.0. See the updated CCSS here.

Systems certified under 8.1 are still valid.