Lowest winning nonce: 1,082

Height 67,071 · 14 July 2010. A field nobody was recording turns out to be hardware history.

1,082 nonce · block 67,071

Under a uniform model, stopping this low is roughly a one-in-four-million event — and five of the eight lowest nonces sit in 2009–2011.

In 2010 the mean winning nonce collapsed toward zero because the original client counted upward and a CPU never finished the range. Recovery near height 90,000 tracks GPU mining. We also published a retraction of a false octile claim (CAST rounding).

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