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D++: Understanding Bitcoin Mining Simply

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Is My Block Header Less Than a Target?

The way bit coin works, like i said, is were comparing two numbers in the mining process. So could we add some arbitrary random data somewhere in the block and then find a hash of the new block and see if the new hash is less than the target? Yes, rightly. There might seem a little archaic, but that's actually how mining works. I moing to add 21 ooo o oo. It's going to change the hash entirely. But is the new resulting hash less than the given difficulty target? No, no. On knows.

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