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0 pointsgm-conspiracy7y ago0 comments

Thank you for the response.

So, fundamentally, is everything just how many zeros prepend the "unique" hex string (for proof-of-work)?

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Yep, that's it as far as I know. Rather, the difficulty requirement sets forth how many leading zeroes the hash of the data plus the variable parameter must have.

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0 pointsgm-conspiracy7y ago0 comments

Thank you for the response.

So, fundamentally, is everything just how many zeros prepend the "unique" hex string (for proof-of-work)?

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arcticbull7y ago

Yep, that's it as far as I know. Rather, the difficulty requirement sets forth how many leading zeroes the hash of the data plus the variable parameter must have.

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