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

So let’s just fast-forward to the nonce and be done with it.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone