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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Understanding Nonce
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nc50lc
on 26/02/2024, 06:56:22 UTC
Alright, from your statement you said if all nonces have been tried .. does this means they have a specific range value or a max value??
Yes, as you said in the OP:
I also learned that nonce is in a form of 32-bit and its always generate randomly

32-bit has a maximum value of 2^32 or 4,294,967,296, so the range is from 0~4,294,967,296.
It has a relatively low max value compared to the average ASIC's hashrate but miners rely on "extra nonce" (in the coinbase transaction) or any other data in the block header so that they can start the nonce from 0 again.