I'm looking for patterns in early mining.
Topic: extraNonce (Read 1046 times)
I only needed up to block 36,000; I have the data
I'm looking for patterns in early mining.
I'm looking for patterns in early mining.
legendary
Activity: 1862
Merit: 1011
Reverse engineer from time to time
They don't seem to be there for newer blocks. The last block is/was 46b49 in hex, tried looking for it in little or big-endian format, no dice.
Here are the coinbases of the first few blocks:
0 04ffff001d0104455468652054696d65732030332f4a616e2f32303039204368616e63656c6c6f72206f6e2062726 96e6b206f66207365636f6e64206261696c6f757420666f722062616e6b73
1 04ffff001d0104
2 04ffff001d010b
3 04ffff001d010e
4 04ffff001d011a
5 04ffff001d0120
That would mean the extraNonce values are:
0 4
1 4
2 11
3 14
4 26
5 32
Fantastic thank you thank you
0 04ffff001d0104455468652054696d65732030332f4a616e2f32303039204368616e63656c6c6f72206f6e2062726 96e6b206f66207365636f6e64206261696c6f757420666f722062616e6b73
1 04ffff001d0104
2 04ffff001d010b
3 04ffff001d010e
4 04ffff001d011a
5 04ffff001d0120
That would mean the extraNonce values are:
0 4
1 4
2 11
3 14
4 26
5 32
Fantastic thank you thank you
legendary
Activity: 1862
Merit: 1011
Reverse engineer from time to time
In the reference client, the coinbase is like so
pblock->vtx[0].vin[0].scriptSig = (CScript() << nHeight << CBigNum(nExtraNonce)) + COINBASE_FLAGS;
so after nheight comes extranonce, but sadly doesn't seem to be like that from bigger pools.
pblock->vtx[0].vin[0].scriptSig = (CScript() << nHeight << CBigNum(nExtraNonce)) + COINBASE_FLAGS;
so after nheight comes extranonce, but sadly doesn't seem to be like that from bigger pools.
Is there a way to view the extraNonce value of a generation tx? 
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