Javier Mateos

The graph shouldn’t look like this… or should it? The distribution of the nonce value in Bitcoin could indicate pure randomness or, on the contrary, reveal strategies used by miners. A frequency analysis of over 860,000 blocks should reflect a trend towards randomness, but is that really the case? Before we begin… What is the nonce? The nonce (number used once) in Bitcoin is a 32-bit number that miners use to generate a valid hash