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Re: [1437 GH/s] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); supporting p2sh!
by
rjk
on 27/02/2012, 13:41:09 UTC
oh nice, why does it need to call sha256 function twice though?
That is what mining is doing. It performs sha256(sha256()) on the block data and a nonce. The nonce is incremented until the result matches or exceeds the difficulty level.