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?
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Another interesting question would be: "What has been the smallest winning hash so far?" – Geremia Mar 11 '18 at 01:26
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1@Geremia: That would be 0000000000000000000000bb5b432a764ad6c7acf677dcd99161abfdf68e698e, for block 500174. – Nate Eldredge Mar 11 '18 at 04:15
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@NateEldredge How did you determine that? – Geremia Sep 01 '18 at 17:19
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@Geremia: I wrote a script to scan my local copy of the blockchain. – Nate Eldredge Sep 02 '18 at 15:23
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@NateEldredge Could you post the script? thanks – Geremia Sep 15 '18 at 00:06
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What's a "golden nonce"? The nonce of a mined block? – Geremia Sep 15 '18 at 00:07
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@Geremia: It's on my to-do list to put it on github. I hope to get around to it soon. – Nate Eldredge Sep 15 '18 at 00:33
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1@Geremia: The script is now on github, at https://github.com/neldredge/bitcoin-blocks – Nate Eldredge Dec 22 '18 at 01:04
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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.
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