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Board Mining software (miners)
Re: Skipping first block of SHA-256
by
Schleicher
on 08/04/2013, 16:27:40 UTC
Since the nonce is part of the second block of the first (inner) call to SHA-256, it seems like an obvious optimization to only re-calculate the whole hash if new blocks or transactions come in. Is this practice currently being employed in mining software?
Yes. The hash of the first part is the "midstate".