Hey everyone, I'm trying to understand something about a recently discovered block. I found this link: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/explorer/block/000000000000000000021306ffe64b02d7e826bfaf3b8a31ba518ddefae9d126.
I noticed the version isn’t the basic one, 0x00000002. Do miners add extraNonce there too? Or is that just included in the merkle?
checking the version of a new block
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#2Jul 1, 2023, 08:07 AM
yeah the version is not just base version 0x02, miners also add extraNonce to it, its calculated as version + 1 (if segwit is enabled) + 2 (if extraNonce is used) + extraNonce, merkle root is also included in the version field after some bitwise operations.
So for example, I could try with base version to find right hash or I need to do bitwase operations with merkle ? I couldn't find somewhere documentation which connects merkle root and version
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