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Simply the concatenation of (version+previous_hash+merkle_root+tim_stamp+target_difficulty+nonce) called candidate block header should give the right target number of leading zeros after applying double_sha256. If you…

Thanks @kano, @a1 Hashrate LLC2022, @NotATether. My intention was also to have a post that anyone googling mining difficulty can find. I recommend these two articles that studied statistically the mining difficulty…

Let’s say we want to mine the next block after block No.749256, which has this hash: 00000000000000000009b06cb40e4302fc0dab3f8031f058351e904e14be2b45. > the current difficulty is 19 leading zeros (that’s 76 zero…

So, from what I gather, Bitcoin popped up after the 2009 financial crisis, right? A bunch of big banks went under and others got saved by the government using our tax dollars. Satoshi Nakamoto seemed to want to create a…