j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMÒ<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325.msg2917#msg2917">Quote from: knightmb on July 14, 2010, 07:17:43 PM</a></div><div class="quote">In terms of variation between problems, when a block is found, everyone starts on the next block. So if your computer was only 1% towards solving block 68000 and got the message "XYZ solved the block 68000 just a few minutes ago", your PC thinks "well, on to the next one". It doesn't waste CPU trying to solve a block that was already solved by someone else. <br/></div>But the problem for solving block X is the same across all the computers, right? So they have a starting point, an algorithm for finding the hash, and a processor. Each starts churning away at the instruction sequence...fastest one wins. I still don't see the luck.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325.msg2917#msg2917">Quote from: knightmb on July 14, 2010, 07:17:43 PM</a></div><div class="quote">...randomly mixed Rubix cubes drop from the ceiling to start the process all over again.<br/></div><br/>So the starting point for the crypto hash problems is different for the various nodes? This would make sense - if a slow machine happened to get a block that needed only 100,000 steps to solve, but a fast machine happened to get a block that needed 10 trillion steps, the slow machine might "win." My question remains, though. What is the source of the variation between starting points? How are the differences created? Obviously, if every machine starts in the same place each time, the fastest machine always wins...so from where do the different starting points come?</div> text/html
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