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==== The Extra Nonce Solution
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Since 2012, mining has evolved to resolve a
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Since 2012, mining((("bitcoins", "mining", "extra nonce solution", id="bitcoin-mining-nonce")))((("mining", "extra nonce solution", id="mining-nonce")))((("extra nonce solution", id="extra-nonce"))) has evolved to resolve a
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fundamental limitation in the structure of the block header. In the
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early days of Bitcoin, a miner could find a block by iterating through
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the nonce until the resulting hash was below the target. As difficulty
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only making changes to the block header. This keeps mining equipment
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and protocols simpler than incrementing the extra nonce in the coinbase
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transaction every 4 billion hashes, which requires recalculating the
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entire left flank of the merkle tree up to the root.
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entire left flank of the merkle tree up to ((("bitcoins", "mining", "extra nonce solution", startref="bitcoin-mining-nonce")))((("mining", "extra nonce solution", startref="mining-nonce")))((("extra nonce solution", startref="extra-nonce")))the root.
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[[mining_pools]]
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==== Mining Pools
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