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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Guy on twitter claims he is working on hash method without brute force.
by
Forp
on 07/10/2011, 21:28:05 UTC
No need to guess.  They are nonces that have generated more than a single solved block.

If I am not completely mistaken, the probability of having such nonces given the current length of the blockchain and the breadth of SHA-256 is...for all realistic purposes zero.

Well, not really. I forgot the target. And the difficulty adjustment over time. And that there was a very low difficulty at the beginning.

It would be interesting to know the probability of such a thing to happen. I assume this happened in very early blocks? Anyone having the block numbers at hand? (My own block explorer version does not yet support searching on nonces)