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Quote from: sandykho47 on July 30, 2014, 06:34:19 AM

I don't know
maybe Genesis block (the first block) Grin

or a block when BTC still don't have price Huh

Ha, you may want to find out what:
- A hash in terms of mining a block is
- That Bitcoins 'price' has never even been a part of the bitcoin protocol (why would it?)

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Quote from: minerpumpkin on July 29, 2014, 11:04:05 AM

I was wondering... What is the block with the lowest hash, or what are the, say, 10 blocks with the lowest hashes? Is there a list? Also, until which difficulty would these blocks be accepted in the blockchain?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/for-fun-the-lowest-block-hash-yet-29675

I don't think anyone maintains a list.

Ah awesome! That's pretty interesting! So currently we are at:

Quote from: abcdefyyy on July 06, 2014, 05:20:27 PM

Currently, the highest achieved difficulty has block 266381:

https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000000028c32e6952731326747bae4be8db0f832d6eea0362050

Achieved difficulty: 110,484,089,548,580

So the block would be accepted at a difficulty 5896.74 times higher than today's difficulty! Awesome!

Anyone have a ball park on the odds of this happening? I'm guessing this is like someone winning the lottery but with no reward other than a single block Tongue

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Quote from: sandykho47 on July 30, 2014, 06:34:19 AM

I don't know
maybe Genesis block (the first block) Grin

or a block when BTC still don't have price Huh

How wrong you are...

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I don't know
maybe Genesis block (the first block) Grin

or a block when BTC still don't have price Huh

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Quote from: minerpumpkin on July 29, 2014, 01:30:57 PM

Quote from: dserrano5 on July 29, 2014, 01:22:39 PM

Quote from: minerpumpkin on July 29, 2014, 11:04:05 AM

I was wondering... What is the block with the lowest hash, or what are the, say, 10 blocks with the lowest hashes? Is there a list? Also, until which difficulty would these blocks be accepted in the blockchain?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/for-fun-the-lowest-block-hash-yet-29675

I don't think anyone maintains a list.

Ah awesome! That's pretty interesting! So currently we are at:

Quote from: abcdefyyy on July 06, 2014, 05:20:27 PM

Currently, the highest achieved difficulty has block 266381:

https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000000028c32e6952731326747bae4be8db0f832d6eea0362050

Achieved difficulty: 110,484,089,548,580

So the block would be accepted at a difficulty 5896.74 times higher than today's difficulty! Awesome!

Which is to say the block hash would've been valid for even decades to come, maybe just one decade, who knows.

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Quote from: dserrano5 on July 29, 2014, 01:22:39 PM

Quote from: minerpumpkin on July 29, 2014, 11:04:05 AM

I was wondering... What is the block with the lowest hash, or what are the, say, 10 blocks with the lowest hashes? Is there a list? Also, until which difficulty would these blocks be accepted in the blockchain?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/for-fun-the-lowest-block-hash-yet-29675

I don't think anyone maintains a list.

Ah awesome! That's pretty interesting! So currently we are at:

Quote from: abcdefyyy on July 06, 2014, 05:20:27 PM

Currently, the highest achieved difficulty has block 266381:

https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000000028c32e6952731326747bae4be8db0f832d6eea0362050

Achieved difficulty: 110,484,089,548,580

So the block would be accepted at a difficulty 5896.74 times higher than today's difficulty! Awesome!

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Quote from: minerpumpkin on July 29, 2014, 11:04:05 AM

I was wondering... What is the block with the lowest hash, or what are the, say, 10 blocks with the lowest hashes? Is there a list? Also, until which difficulty would these blocks be accepted in the blockchain?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/for-fun-the-lowest-block-hash-yet-29675

I don't think anyone maintains a list.

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It's not really as interesting as you think. You would look at it for 5-10 seconds and move on.

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That's a good question! I don't know, though whether there's a list for that. If you had the Blockchain at hand and could query for that kind of data, I guess one could find some interesting blocks though. Has anyone those capabilities???

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Quote from: Remember remember the 5th of November on July 29, 2014, 11:21:19 AM

Actually, it's a bit of a misunderstanding I suppose, we are looking for the lowest hash, so basically <= target. Difficulty is just a human readable representation.

Yeah, the lower the hash the more targets it will pass (i.e. satisfy a higher difficulty). So I'm looking for blocks that had an incredibly low hash (satisfying maybe a difficulty we won't see for some time!) I think you also though of an example.

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Quote from: minerpumpkin on July 29, 2014, 11:18:26 AM

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Once they are in, they are in forever. As for under which circumstance they can be accepted if they were discovered now, they would need to satisfy the requirement of being lower or equal than the target.

Yeah, I know, sure, sorry for the confusion Cheesy

What I mean is: How high could the higherst difficulty be at the time the block gets mined given its hash? If I mine a block and it satisfies the current difficulty (is under the respective threshold), it could very well satisfy a difficulty multiple times higher than the actual difficulty at that time

Depends on the hash. I remember 2 or 3 years ago, there was a hash that was 20 billion(i.e it had more zero bits than the requirement), when the difficulty was but just less than a million.

However a hash that is just slightly above the current difficulty will not be able to satisfy the requirement if the network difficulty was higher than the hash's.
Example: If the difficulty was 1, the hash's diff was 2, it would satisfy the diff requriement of 1, but it wouldn't if the network difficulty was higher than the hash's.

Actually, it's a bit of a misunderstanding I suppose, we are looking for the lowest hash, so basically <= target. Difficulty is just a human readable representation.

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Quote from: Remember remember the 5th of November on July 29, 2014, 11:12:24 AM

Once they are in, they are in forever. As for under which circumstance they can be accepted if they were discovered now, they would need to satisfy the requirement of being lower or equal than the target.

Yeah, I know, sure, sorry for the confusion Cheesy

What I mean is: How high could the higherst difficulty be at the time the block gets mined given its hash? If I mine a block and it satisfies the current difficulty (is under the respective threshold), it could very well satisfy a difficulty multiple times higher than the actual difficulty at that time

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Once they are in, they are in forever. As for under which circumstance they can be accepted if they were discovered now, they would need to satisfy the requirement of being lower or equal than the target.

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I was wondering... What is the block with the lowest hash, or what are the, say, 10 blocks with the lowest hashes? Is there a list? Also, until which difficulty would these blocks be accepted in the blockchain?

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