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hodlpleb · 84w
Just got clearer on how Hashing Difficulty works. It is not simply the number of zeros at the beginning of the hash. Difficulty might be set to a number, 0001200000000.... The hash needs to be "less...
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What you described is called target. Difficulty is the largest possible target (0x00000000FFFF0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000) divided by the current target (as of right now, 0x00000000000002816E0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000).

See https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/8811
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Boris · 84w
Sorry, the target in my message is not the current target, it is an example of target. I copy-pasted it from stack overflow:)