Block with the lowest hash?

[minerpumpkin]

I was wondering... What is the block with the lowest hash, or what are the, say, 10 blocks with the lowest hashes? Is there a list? Also, until which difficulty would these blocks be accepted in the blockchain?

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

Once they are in, they are in forever. As for under which circumstance they can be accepted if they were discovered now, they would need to satisfy the requirement of being lower or equal than the target.

[minerpumpkin]

Once they are in, they are in forever. As for under which circumstance they can be accepted if they were discovered now, they would need to satisfy the requirement of being lower or equal than the target.

Yeah, I know, sure, sorry for the confusion What I mean is: How high could the higherst difficulty be at the time the block gets mined given its hash? If I mine a block and it satisfies the current difficulty (is under the respective threshold), it could very well satisfy a difficulty multiple times higher than the actual difficulty at that time

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

Once they are in, they are in forever. As for under which circumstance they can be accepted if they were discovered now, they would need to satisfy the requirement of being lower or equal than the target.

Yeah, I know, sure, sorry for the confusion What I mean is: How high could the higherst difficulty be at the time the block gets mined given its hash? If I mine a block and it satisfies the current difficulty (is under the respective threshold), it could very well satisfy a difficulty multiple times higher than the actual difficulty at that time

Depends on the hash. I remember 2 or 3 years ago, there was a hash that was 20 billion(i.e it had more zero bits than the requirement), when the difficulty was but just less than a million.

However a hash that is just slightly above the current difficulty will not be able to satisfy the requirement if the network difficulty was higher than the hash's.
Example: If the difficulty was 1, the hash's diff was 2, it would satisfy the diff requriement of 1, but it wouldn't if the network difficulty was higher than the hash's.

Actually, it's a bit of a misunderstanding I suppose, we are looking for the lowest hash, so basically <= target. Difficulty is just a human readable representation.

[minerpumpkin]

Actually, it's a bit of a misunderstanding I suppose, we are looking for the lowest hash, so basically <= target. Difficulty is just a human readable representation.

Yeah, the lower the hash the more targets it will pass (i.e. satisfy a higher difficulty). So I'm looking for blocks that had an incredibly low hash (satisfying maybe a difficulty we won't see for some time!) I think you also though of an example.

[ensurance982]

That's a good question! I don't know, though whether there's a list for that. If you had the Blockchain at hand and could query for that kind of data, I guess one could find some interesting blocks though. Has anyone those capabilities???

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

It's not really as interesting as you think. You would look at it for 5-10 seconds and move on.

[dserrano5]

I was wondering... What is the block with the lowest hash, or what are the, say, 10 blocks with the lowest hashes? Is there a list? Also, until which difficulty would these blocks be accepted in the blockchain?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=29675.0

I don't think anyone maintains a list.

[minerpumpkin]

I was wondering... What is the block with the lowest hash, or what are the, say, 10 blocks with the lowest hashes? Is there a list? Also, until which difficulty would these blocks be accepted in the blockchain?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=29675.0

I don't think anyone maintains a list.

Ah awesome! That's pretty interesting! So currently we are at:

Currently, the highest achieved difficulty has block 266381:

https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000000028c32e6952731326747bae4be8db0f832d6eea0362050

Achieved difficulty: 110,484,089,548,580

So the block would be accepted at a difficulty 5896.74 times higher than today's difficulty! Awesome!

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

I was wondering... What is the block with the lowest hash, or what are the, say, 10 blocks with the lowest hashes? Is there a list? Also, until which difficulty would these blocks be accepted in the blockchain?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=29675.0

I don't think anyone maintains a list.

Ah awesome! That's pretty interesting! So currently we are at:

Currently, the highest achieved difficulty has block 266381:

https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000000028c32e6952731326747bae4be8db0f832d6eea0362050

Achieved difficulty: 110,484,089,548,580

So the block would be accepted at a difficulty 5896.74 times higher than today's difficulty! Awesome!

Which is to say the block hash would've been valid for even decades to come, maybe just one decade, who knows.

[sandykho47]

I don't know
maybe Genesis block (the first block) 
or a block when BTC still don't have price 

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

I don't know
maybe Genesis block (the first block) 
or a block when BTC still don't have price 

How wrong you are...

[Este Nuno]

I was wondering... What is the block with the lowest hash, or what are the, say, 10 blocks with the lowest hashes? Is there a list? Also, until which difficulty would these blocks be accepted in the blockchain?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=29675.0

I don't think anyone maintains a list.

Ah awesome! That's pretty interesting! So currently we are at:

Currently, the highest achieved difficulty has block 266381:

https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000000028c32e6952731326747bae4be8db0f832d6eea0362050

Achieved difficulty: 110,484,089,548,580

So the block would be accepted at a difficulty 5896.74 times higher than today's difficulty! Awesome!

Anyone have a ball park on the odds of this happening? I'm guessing this is like someone winning the lottery but with no reward other than a single block

[ensurance982]

I don't know
maybe Genesis block (the first block) 
or a block when BTC still don't have price 

Ha, you may want to find out what:
- A hash in terms of mining a block is
- That Bitcoins 'price' has never even been a part of the bitcoin protocol (why would it?)