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What percentage of mined nonces fail to join the consensus blockchain?
Imagine that all of the Bitcoin network's hashing is being done on a single giant imaginary computer, that doesn't stop if it finds a successful block.
We can perform a calculation of the probability ...
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What percentage of mined nonces fail to join the consensus blockchain?
The term for this is "orphan rate" or "fork rate", as each created block which doesn't make it into the eventually accepted chain is effectively a tiny chain fork that doesn't get ...
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What if a miner just broadcasts the header and never gives the body? What will happen?
Since nobody can determine that the block is valid, they will treat it just like anything else that they cannot determine is valid -- they will ignore it.
Miners can't start mining based on the header ...
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What percentage of mined nonces fail to join the consensus blockchain?
You should say Bitcoin, not just blockchain: Bitcoin is the basic reference model for all blockchains, but there may be protocol variations with other blockchains.
The fact that a miner found such a ...
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What if a miner just broadcasts the header and never gives the body? What will happen?
Full nodes will want to see the body in order to maintain their UTXO set.
The miners block headers alone are not enough.
Also, the miner would never be able to spend the block rewards, because that ...
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What percentage of mined nonces fail to join the consensus blockchain?
The fact that a miner found such a nonce does not guarantee that it
will become part of the consensus blockchain though.
this is true because there might be multiple miners who find the correct nonce ...
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