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Why is the nonce required? #13

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Answer from @ajsutton:

Yep, purely PoW. nonce is what the miners pick randomly when trying to find the solution. mixHash is calculated based on the DAG (which is what makes Ethereum PoW memory-hard and difficult to create asics for)

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