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Tagged with nonce proof-of-work
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How cooperative or competitive is the mining process?
As each miner works out which nonces it has tried, does it notify the network so that energy isn't wasted on re-processing the same thing by each node? Or is it totally competitive with everyone for ...
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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."
Time Evolution
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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Where exactly is the mining code in Bitcoin Core?
I've been looking for months for the real mining code in the Bitcoin Core source code for the function/s that implement the incrementing of the nonce and hashing blocks for mining and never found ...
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Who decides what the next, correct Nonce is?
As I understand finding the correct Nonce is the basis when hashing transactions for Proof of Work.
How and where is this decided in the ecosystem what the next Nonce is?
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How finding a working nonce says anyting about the validity of an initial transaction
I am by no means an expert, nor a cryptographer, but I would be interested in knowning a little bit more than what happens at the end of the following chain of events.
What happens at the end of the ...
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Who decides for Blockchain PoW puzzle?
In PoW algorithm a miner has to solve a mathematical puzzle whose difficulty depends upon load on network and total computing power. But who decides what would be that puzzle for each block?
For ...
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Does 4 byte Nonce enough to proof of work?
Is it always possible to find an hash value of a block, smaller than the current difficulty, just using 4 byte (Nonce) ? How can we be sure about it ?
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Are Bitcoin transaction fees competitive?
I was listening today to their conversation about the transcation fees in Bitcoin and Michael Sailor's understanding stroke me as inaccurate.
Is there any direct incentive within the Bitcoin protocol ...
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Steal proof-of-work answer from a miner [duplicate]
Is it possible to steal proof-of-work answer from a miner who has insecure machine? Consider a miner who has insecure machine found correct answer of proof-of-work and an adversary steals this it and ...
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What prevents a miner from faking nonce hash
What exactly prevents a miner from presenting a random nonce hash of the block with enough zeroes at the start to get chosen?
How is the new hash verified by the other nodes? Since as I understand ...
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When should proof-of-work be done? Does it involve in mining a coin? Can it be done without real transactions to be recorded?
I am trying to understand about what bitcoin is. I conceptualize bitcoin as a proof of work required when a new block (or new coin) is created. I also understand that a proof of work involves finding ...
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Finding Hash with 11 leading zeroes
For an exercise, I'm trying to find a sha256 hash with 11 leading zeroes.
For this reason, I wrote a Python script that basically tries all intergers from 1 to N and brute forces the hash. Now my N is ...
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