It's probabilistic. The goal is to find a hash less than the previous block, 00000000000000000000ef903fd2d1ce35130114a47afeed2384394ddbcfdaf3. Sometimes it takes minute. Sometimes it takes 30 minutes, but it is every ten minutes on average.
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3 so far. Fascinating 🐶🐾🫡
I think it's beautiful. Nobody knows what the winning nonce will be ahead of time, so it's random in a sense like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, yet we still have an objective standard to measure. It almost seems like a monument, like the Pyramids, but digital. That's how I see it anyway.