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[[extra_nonce]]
==== The Extra Nonce Solution
Since 2012, mining has evolved to resolve a
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
fundamental limitation in the structure of the block header. In the
early days of Bitcoin, a miner could find a block by iterating through
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
and protocols simpler than incrementing the extra nonce in the coinbase
transaction every 4 billion hashes, which requires recalculating the
entire left flank of the merkle tree up to the root.
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.
[[mining_pools]]
==== Mining Pools