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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Finding nonce in historical transactions / blocks
by
ranochigo
on 14/02/2021, 09:00:45 UTC
It turns out that the extraNonce is not included in the block or block header formats. This is a reply from theymos:
Correct. It's in the Coinbase transaction and since it's not a protocol standard, it can be a bit ambiguous, any changes in the transactions will alter the merkle root though I think using an extranonce makes it simpler.

The r and s values are 32 bytes each and located in the signature. If you want to parse it but I imagine that will take sometime, not sure what this can yield though. They're meant to be completely random under normal circumstances.