Hi,
Thanks to the help of those guys in this forum
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120960.msg1327491now I understand how basic mining works (getwork, stupid-endian
correction, probing the nonces, hashing, etc.)
What I now want to ask is how merged mining works exactly.
There's an explanation here:
http://dot-bit.org/Merged_Miningthat doesn't really make any sense to me. How can a "mined"
solution for one block chain be also a solution for another?? The
same nonce can't be good (I mean it can accidetally, but that
is very-very unlikely). The data that the miner has to hash
is at least slightly different with the different chains, and
cryptographic hashes were designed in a way that small changes
in the input produces huge changes in the output value, so
it seems to me far fetched that it can be used without some
kind of connection between the chains. (The dot.bit.org site
linked above says that there's no connection between the
two chains, namely bitcoin and namecoin in this case.)
Could someone please explain me how merged mining works
in more technical terms - or send me a link about it?