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1  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Skipping first block of SHA-256 on: April 08, 2013, 04:32:32 AM
Since the nonce is part of the second block of the first (inner) call to SHA-256, it seems like an obvious optimization to only re-calculate the whole hash if new blocks or transactions come in. Is this practice currently being employed in mining software?
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