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Maybe I'm thick, but I don't understand what your comment means. Can you elaborate?


I’m having a hard time citing an organofcorti link or what I’ve read in the past regarding ASIC miner nonce generation but it’s not distributed across the entire possible key space evenly; iirc most miners state at zero and increment up or start at the end and decrement nonces or even start at the middle, etc - the distribution is not random.

I may even be mistakenly referring to the satoshi nonces


I think what the parent is saying is that these English word nonce generators are far more likely to use the word “house” and “fork” than it is to use “onomatopoeia” or “fuck”. Thus, limiting the range of words likely to be used, leading to more easily guessed phrases. Also, I could be as thick as you ;).




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