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With all the stats and metrics out there I was surprised I could not find this out. Has anyone ever determined the highest nonce in a block?
What is the largest golden nonce found?
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Through block 512961, the highest (little-endian) nonce value to date is 4294956079 (0xffffd42f), in block 219742.
The lowest is 1082 (0x0000043a), in block 67071.
The script I used to gather this data is at https://github.com/neldredge/bitcoin-blocks.
I'm jealous of your ability to look that up - thanks! – Corbin – 2018-03-11T13:52:50.627
Another interesting question would be: "What has been the smallest winning hash so far?" – Geremia – 2018-03-11T01:26:07.257
1@Geremia: That would be 0000000000000000000000bb5b432a764ad6c7acf677dcd99161abfdf68e698e, for block 500174. – Nate Eldredge – 2018-03-11T04:15:31.453
@NateEldredge How did you determine that? – Geremia – 2018-09-01T17:19:18.950
@Geremia: I wrote a script to scan my local copy of the blockchain. – Nate Eldredge – 2018-09-02T15:23:28.633
@NateEldredge Could you post the script? thanks – Geremia – 2018-09-15T00:06:01.277
What's a "golden nonce"? The nonce of a mined block? – Geremia – 2018-09-15T00:07:36.533
@Geremia: It's on my to-do list to put it on github. I hope to get around to it soon. – Nate Eldredge – 2018-09-15T00:33:50.877
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@Geremia: The script is now on github, at https://github.com/neldredge/bitcoin-blocks
– Nate Eldredge – 2018-12-22T01:04:14.480