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 at least for the nonce it seems as though he will have to reinforce it by more than $100,000 of research.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He would need to bum them eventually, no doubt, but for the nonce they were bound with iron chains inside their cells.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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