Spack_Jarrow on Nostr: I’ve somewhat learned what a nonce is, I always had this thought that mining is ...

I’ve somewhat learned what a nonce is, I always had this thought that mining is just a random number guessing game which simplistically looking at it it sort of is, but that would imply that there’s a expected outcome which would mean someone knows the solution to the solving the block. I’m no math wiz but finding out that there’s more than one possible solution and that it just has to be a number that produces a hash with the correct or greater number of zeroes (I realize I’m probably butchering this explanation) and that it’s a dynamically engineered system to adjust for however much computational power is pointed at it amazed me. I’m from more of a biology background so learning of a mathematical homeostasis mechanism in place is sort of mind blowing.