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Does every nonce really have an equal chance of winning?
I set out to test the claim: "Every nonce has an equal chance of winning."
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So, I plotted, with gnuplot, the nonce values vs. hashes for all the valid blocks in the blockchain:(Also, ...
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Why change the nonce instead of just rehashing?
Why do miners increase the nonce to compute a block hash rather than just generating a random block hash? It seems to me that both approaches would have the same likeliness of finding a result that ...
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