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
But for the nonce the illusion of youth's vigor still lingers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those gates looked so close ... and if the talk in the slave pens could be believed, Meereen remained a free city for the nonce.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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