Quote from: Delek on May 31, 2016, 11:39:52 PM

Quote from: CounterEntropy on May 31, 2016, 10:32:33 PM

Mining pools probably can not force the last digit of a block hash to be zero or any digit of their choice. It should depend on the nonce.

BREAKING NEWS: Forcing the hash is changing a nonce.

Not sure if u r joking or spamming.

Quote from: DannyHamilton on June 01, 2016, 02:39:55 AM

Quote from: 2c0de on May 31, 2016, 12:06:35 PM

Mining pools probably can not force the last digit of a block hash to be zero or any digit of their choice. It should depend on the nonce. Otherwise SHA would have been broken.

Sure, but if the block reward is only 12.5 BTC (like it will be in about 7 weeks), and the prize for guessing the correct last hash digit is 200 BTC, then it might be worth it to the miner (or pool) to just ignore a successful hash and continue to try additional nonce values to see if the next successful block hash has a winning digit. They might miss out on the 12.5 BTC since they didn't broadcast their block, but 1 out of every 16 times they do it, they have a 6.25% chance of their next successful hash earning them 200 BTC.

Well, I think, there is no chance of this. Because, the highest amount of bet they are accepting against house is 0.1 BTC. So, the best amount that the miner can win for now is 0.8 BTC. No one will withhold 12.5 BTC for 0.8 BTC.