hi guys,
I just went through the reading assignment for Hashing in the Bitcoin 101 course, from the reading material in I learn that a miner wins the mining lottery if their hash number is below the correct solution.
so my question is, if I’m a miner (and to the same extend, every miner out there), what stops me from guessing the the correct hash number to be 0 or a number that is minutely small above 0 (e.g. 0.0000000000001) and get the win the hashing lottery every time?
assuming the correct hashing number would not be a negative alphanumeric, and thus makes 0 the smallest possible solution, and 0 would definitely smaller than the correct hashing number.
You are not allowed to “guess” a low hash number directly. You must guess the random number that when used in the block causes the block to be hashed to a number lower than the difficulty target. There is no simple relationship between the random number and the block hash, so guessing a suitable random number is time consuming for a low target.
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