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=== Successfully Mining the Block
As we saw earlier, Jing's node has constructed a candidate block and prepared it for mining. Jing has several hardware mining rigs with Application Specific Integrated Circuits, where hundreds of thousands of integrated circuits run the SHA-256 algorithm in parallel at incredible speeds. These specialized machines are connected to his mining node over USB. Next, the mining node running on Jing's desktop transmits the block header to his mining hardware, which start testing trillions of nonces per second.
As we saw earlier, Jing's node has constructed a candidate block and prepared it for mining. Jing has several hardware mining rigs with Application Specific Integrated Circuits, where hundreds of thousands of integrated circuits run the SHA256 algorithm in parallel at incredible speeds. These specialized machines are connected to his mining node over USB. Next, the mining node running on Jing's desktop transmits the block header to his mining hardware, which start testing trillions of nonces per second.
Almost 11 minutes after starting to mine block 277,316, one of the hardware mining machines finds a solution and sends it back to the mining node. The nonce 4,215,469,401 when inserted into the block header produces a block hash of +0000000000000002a7bbd25a417c0374cc55261021e8a9ca74442b01284f0569+, which is less than the target of +0000000000000003A30C00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000+.