diff --git a/ch12_mining.adoc b/ch12_mining.adoc index 3cfdacee..817eef5a 100644 --- a/ch12_mining.adoc +++ b/ch12_mining.adoc @@ -1076,6 +1076,8 @@ sequence, +CLTV+, and +CSV+. === 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 @@ -1089,7 +1091,8 @@ the nonce is only 32 bits, after exhausting all the nonce possibilities (about 4 billion), the mining hardware changes the block header (adjusting the coinbase extra nonce space, versionbits, or timestamp) and resets the nonce counter, testing -new combinations. +new combinations.

+++++ Almost 11 minutes after starting to mine a particular block, one of the hardware mining machines finds a solution and sends it back to the