<p>Mining is like a lottery. If rich people buys 60% of the tickets, they would win on average 60% of the time, they wouldn't win always.</p>

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2018-03-15T22:26:03.480Z
2018-03-15T22:26:03.480Z
Osias Jota
<p>You need to build a valid block. That means that you need a valid nonce. If you start searching from 0, 1, 2, 3... or wheather you try random numbers is irrelevant.</p>

<p>The hash is also not only dependant from the nonce. If you start at 0 and another miner starts at 0 and you both have a different set of transactions in the block, you need to finde different nonces.</p>

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2018-03-15T12:23:29.990Z
2018-03-15T12:23:29.990Z
hardfork
<p>My understanding is that miners try several values for a nonce until the hash of the nonce and the data is of a certain format. However assuming that all miners start the nonce counter from the same number then that would mean the miner that is going to find the correct nonce is simply the one that can hash the fastest. Which should always be the same miner. What am I missing here?</p>

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2018-03-15T12:19:14.120Z
There are many many many fast miners. There is no uber miner.
arminb
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How doesn't the most powerful miner get the block reward everytime?
ninesalt
# How doesn't the most powerful miner get the block reward everytime?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-03-15)

My understanding is that miners try several values for a nonce until the hash of the nonce and the data is of a certain format. However assuming that all miners start the nonce counter from the same number then that would mean the miner that is going to find the correct nonce is simply the one that can hash the fastest. Which should always be the same miner. What am I missing here?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: There are many many many fast miners. There is no uber miner.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2018-03-15. Score: 0

Mining is like a lottery. If rich people buys 60% of the tickets, they would win on average 60% of the time, they wouldn't win always.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2018-03-15. Score: 0

You need to build a valid block. That means that you need a valid nonce. If you start searching from 0, 1, 2, 3... or wheather you try random numbers is irrelevant.

The hash is also not only dependant from the nonce. If you start at 0 and another miner starts at 0 and you both have a different set of transactions in the block, you need to finde different nonces.


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