The mining process is based on a proof-of-capacity (PoC) algorithm, described in a whitepaper written by Stefan Dziembowski, Sebastian Faust, Vladimir Kolmogorov and Krzysztof Pietrzak.[14] In order to mine Burstcoins each miner first computes a large data set which is then saved to a computer storage medium. These data sets are known as plots. For each new block in the blockchain each miner will read through a tiny subset (Approximately 0.024%) of their own saved plots and return a result as a time interval in seconds known as a deadline.