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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: The answer is 00000000000000001e8d6829a8a21adc5d38d0a473b144b6765798e61f98bd1d
by
J.P. Larocque
on 13/07/2011, 21:25:18 UTC
I wrestled through the non-standard use of little-endian hashes and input values in bitcoin, and dug out the block input which results in this tiny tiny hash output.  I documented it all as an example in the wiki:

  https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_hashing_algorithm

Kudos, this answered a few nagging questions I had with the mining process.