⛏️ Mine Your Own Block
Try mining a real block and feel the computational challenge
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Experience the mining process firsthand. Configure your block data and difficulty, then watch as the miner searches for a valid nonce.
⚙️ Mining Configuration
4
Easy (2)Medium (3-4)Hard (5)
Target pattern: 0000xxxxxx
Estimated time: ~11 minutes
Status
Ready
Nonce
0
Time
0.00s
Hash Rate
0 H/s
💡What's Happening?
- •Miner tests nonce values sequentially
- •Each nonce produces different hash
- •Valid hash = starts with required zeros
- •No shortcut - pure brute force
⚡Real vs This Demo
Your hash rate:~100 H/s
ASIC miner:100 TH/s
Bitcoin network:450 EH/s
Real Bitcoin mining is trillions of times faster!
🧪 Experiments to Try
Experiment 1: Easy Difficulty
Set difficulty to 2. Notice how quickly blocks are found with fewer required zeros.
Experiment 2: Hard Difficulty
Set difficulty to 5. Observe how exponentially longer it takes to find valid blocks.
Experiment 3: Different Data
Change the block data and remining. Same difficulty, but completely different nonce required.
🎯 Key Insights
Unpredictable
Each hash is random. Nonce 100 could work, or nonce 1,000,000. Pure luck.
Exponential Difficulty
Each additional zero makes mining ~16x harder. 5 zeros is 16x harder than 4 zeros.
Proof of Work
Finding the nonce proves you spent computational effort - can't fake it.
Fair Competition
More hash power = more chances, but everyone follows same rules.