With all the stats and metrics out there I was surprised I could not find this out. Has anyone ever determined the highest nonce in a block?
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Another interesting question would be: "What has been the smallest winning hash so far?"– GeremiaMar 11, 2018 at 1:26
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1@Geremia: That would be 0000000000000000000000bb5b432a764ad6c7acf677dcd99161abfdf68e698e, for block 500174.– Nate EldredgeMar 11, 2018 at 4:15
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@NateEldredge How did you determine that?– GeremiaSep 1, 2018 at 17:19
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@Geremia: I wrote a script to scan my local copy of the blockchain.– Nate EldredgeSep 2, 2018 at 15:23
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1@Geremia: The script is now on github, at github.com/neldredge/bitcoin-blocks– Nate EldredgeDec 22, 2018 at 1:04
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Through block 512961, the highest (little-endian) nonce value to date is 4294956079 (0xffffd42f), in block 219742.
The lowest is 1082 (0x0000043a), in block 67071.
The script I used to gather this data is at https://github.com/neldredge/bitcoin-blocks.
answered Mar 11, 2018 at 4:15
