How Tari Lets You Mine Crypto in ‘Less Than a Minute’

Crypto mining is the foundation on which decentralized finance infrastructure is built – but has a high barrier to entry that requires specialist equipment and technical expertise.

According to him, this goes against the whole ethos of cryptocurrencies DeFi project Department-so for custom layer-1 blockchainhas developed a mining infrastructure that runs on any computer and allows you to start earning cryptocurrency in less than a minute using Tari Universe software.

“We’re actually hovering around 45 seconds,” said Tari contributor Naveen Jain Unscramble. “So within 45 seconds of running the app, you’re mining using both CPU and GPU.”

Tari Universe is “the easiest-to-use mining app in the world,” he said. The idea is for users to “download it for free from the Internet on almost any Mac or PC, install it and run it, and start mining Tari in no time, and then start actually earning Tari rewards in a very short period of time,” Jain explained. “No more configuration, no more command line nonsense, no debugging. It all happens magically behind the scenes of this beautiful GUI we designed.”

Beauty is eternal joy

Light it up Tari universe and it’s clear that a lot of thought went into the user experience. The complexities of blockchain and cryptocurrency mining are abstracted away; in their place is a simple, effective visualization of the blockchain as a tower being assembled right before your eyes.

Each time miners solve the complex equations that make up Taria’s work consensus control mechanism, a new floor is added, creating an “infinitely growing tower for the rest of time,” Jain said. At the bottom of the screen, “block bubbles” show the block reward for the previous block. “You can actually see how much Tari was awarded in the last block and how many transactions actually happened on the Tari network in that block,” Jain said. “So we’re really providing a lot of information in this very elegant interface,” he added. The idea is to portray blockchain as a “living, breathing organism” rather than a bunch of math.

The crypto space has historically created “crypto products for crypto people,” Jain said, adding that “a crypto person is someone who is really willing to go through a very painful user experience to play in a casino.”

This means that cryptocurrency proponents have become accustomed to dealing with terms that are mystifying to the average user; more different flavors ETH or USDC, chain swaps and bridges, coin mixers and liquidity pools. “We’ve created a whole series of similar, really terrible user experiences in this industry where it takes a significant amount of knowledge and understanding to avoid the pitfalls,” he said.

He likened Tari Universe to Amazon’s pioneering “1-Click” shopping, which made online shopping accessible to the general public. “I think there’s an opportunity in the crypto space to be a leader in terms of creating the most convenient, really easy-to-use apps and products, and that gives you an edge over the competition,” he said. “We want Tari products to be used by crypto natives, but we don’t want it to be exclusively for crypto natives.”

Main Street, confidential

Of course, creating an accessible product means nothing if there is no underlying tool, and the creators of Tari like to emphasize that while users can start mining quickly, the crypto they will earn is not some vaporware meme coin.

Tari is a proof of work blockchain, like bitcoin, designed to support “a new financial system designed to empower builders and creators.” Unlike most blockchains and cryptocurrencies, confidentiality is also built in by default “to keep users safe”.

Cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and Solana are a “panopticon,” Jain said, revealing a user’s entire financial history and interactions with decentralized applications (dapps). As well as risking their safety in a world where “$5 Key Attacks” are becoming more common, this also makes cryptocurrencies impractical for the average user.

“Knowing that you’re being tracked changes your behavior,” Jain pointed out, adding that “If you know someone’s wallet address, you can track in real time the pros and cons of their financial decisions, what coins they buy, what things they play, how much time they spend.”

Plus, it’s “bad for business,” he said. “Anyone outside of cryptocurrency is going to look at this and say, ‘Wait, now everyone, all of my competitors are going to see every detail of what’s going on in my business? I don’t want that.’

Tari takes a more “pragmatic” stance than privacy-maximizing projects, Jain said — though he counts himself among its major contributors before Monero main admin Riccardo “fluffypony” Spagni. The project promotes “programmable confidentiality,” he explained. “It’s confidential on a peer-to-peer basis, so not everyone can just randomly spy on your stuff – but if the token issuer needs to see the TX chart for compliance, they can.”

Spagni pointed out that in the current cryptocurrency environment, “a lot of the decision about whether or not you’re going to do a private transaction falls on the user.” This, he says, goes against the way most apps work. “We just don’t think the decision matrix should sit there,” he argued. “It should sit, as with traditional businesses, with the developer.”

Tari has huge ambitions – Jain envisions the platform evolving into “a fully programmable thing where people have instant access to Tari apps, all through this beautiful app called Tari Universe.” Ultimately, he suggested that the platform could do away with the idea of ​​an app store altogether, as AI agents will continue to dominate. “Apps may cease to exist as we know them,” he said. “Is it really just going to be a grid of icons? What if apps become options for agents in the future?”

In the short term, with the latest updates to Tari Universe, Tari is committed to building “the easiest-to-use chain to join,” Jain said. “And then the simplest chain where you can actually use applications that are built on top of the chain.”