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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsidering block version number use
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:58:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP0NMmwWN1U3V_hha7+C8meKWK_szhh+6xP7VQMbFTLoqQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T0JK9qBKZu7YWeQCBAjT1Ur05BQ26A5NdLCwD6Wuyc0nQ@mail.gmail.com>

> That'd be 7 bytes of nonce in the block header, which is
>   72,057,594,037,927,936  ~ 72 petahashes = 72,000 terahashes
>
> So: the changes for version 2 blocks would be "has height in the
> coinbase, and has a 1-byte version number with a 3-byte extranonce."

I don't understand why more nonce bits are necessary. Is it really
impossible for a multi-core CPU to keep up with the merkle root
re-calculation and keep an ASIC miner fed, or is this working around a
performance bottleneck somewhere else?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-24  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-22 20:52 [Bitcoin-development] Reconsidering block version number use Luke-Jr
2012-07-23  0:41 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-07-23  0:57   ` Luke-Jr
2012-07-24  7:58   ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2012-07-24  8:01     ` Peter Vessenes
2012-07-24  8:22       ` Mike Hearn

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