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Harvesting is an alternative to the traditional mining used to maintain the integrity of a blockchain network. It was designed by a blockchain platform called NEM to generate its own currency called XEM. According to finder.com, this is how harvesting works: “Every time someone carries out a transaction, the first computer to see and verify the transaction will notify nearby users of that transaction, creating a cascade of information. This process is called ‘generating a block.’ Whenever someone with more than 10,000 vested XEM generates a block in NEM, they receive the transaction fees on that block as payment.” Also, as explained earlier in this chapter, harvesting uses a PoI system rather than PoS and PoW.