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Re: Bitcoin mining solutions for previous blocks
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nc50lc
on 22/06/2023, 15:29:13 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
nonce is: 0x2891b1c2 that is required just under 1TH that easily just a miner will do it under a second. Am I missing something?
They can indeed reach even the maximum nonce value in a second.
But there's something called an "extra nonce" which can be anything in the block header that could be changed after the maximum nonce in reached.

Each miner has their unique or simply a widely-used method of getting extra nonce,
For example, some pools are changing a value in their coinbase transaction's OP_Return output which will produce a different "merkle root hash".
With that they can restart the nonce since there's something's changed in the block header.