Replying to Avatar Chris Liss

Dumb question for the technically knowledgeable: how does the protocol determine what number the miners have to guess? IOW, each block needs to be guessed, and I’m assuming each “number” is random. But computers don’t do random very well.

Occurred to me with the solo miners winning the block reward last couple days — is it possible to game the protocol and narrow it down?
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BTCingularity 11mo ago

Yes they guess a number but the number (the hash output firm the required block input) could be any number with the required amount of zeros at the start. The number of zeros is the difficulty as set by each difficulty adjustment.

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