Andreas Antonopoulos, the author of Mastering Bitcoin, spoke about why the nonce was so small in the Bitcoin blockchain, i.e., 32-bit, considering that 32-bits produces only 4 billion combinations, during the latest Bitcoin Q&A episode on YouTube. According to Bitcoin Wiki, a Nonce refers to, “a 32-bit [4-byte] field whose value is adjusted by miners […]The post Bitcoin [BTC]: Idea of ASIC was not on anybody’s mind when Bitcoin was being built, says Antonopoulos appeared first on AMBCrypto.
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