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What was the intended benefit of truncating the Target?
I'm thinking about how the Target value is truncated to and later compared to the SHA-256hash of the Block Header.
Given that
The maximum target (lowest possible difficulty) is
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How does a miner perform hashing?
I'm trying to walk my way through the process by which a miner hashes.
Let's say the getwork request returns a data field of:
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How is the endian conversion done?
This answer seems simple, but I'm finding mixed answers. This question describes the conversion from little-endian to big-endian hex strings (or vice-versa) as switching the order of bytes in every ...
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Proper getmemorypool data endianness?
As there are a couple endiannesses used by Bitcoin, what is the proper way to encode the data parameter for a getmemorypool JSON API call?
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Getwork and GetMemoryPool - why is previous block hash different?
When I called:
print bitcoin.getmemorypool()
print bitcoin.getwork()
using Python JSON for a testnet BitcoinQT server, I got the following responces:
{'previousblockhash': ...
