Damus
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nostrich
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 than" that number.
So needs to start with 00011xxxxxxxx....

(I am probably misrepresenting this so please correct me)

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Boris · 84w
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....