nonce
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When a mining node wants to create a block, it would take all the data in the block, plus a special number called a nonce, and run it through the hashing algorithm.
From The Verge ● Sep. 9, 2021
If the hash doesn’t start out as “aaaaa,” it would increase the nonce by one, and start again.
From The Verge ● Sep. 9, 2021
A lapse into depression, for the nonce, was averted.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2010
I was nonplussed, for the nonce, but when we were within ten feet of the bottom I recovered my wits.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I still shall hear of this battle,” said he, pointing a finger at me, “but for the nonce, tune yourself.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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