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[ Vic-Nas/hailstone ] Consensus: exhaustive gapless Collatz sweep, replacing random per-block ranges
Previously each block's search range started at an independent random
point (derived from hashPrevBlock + a magnitude that climbed on a
fixed chain-work budget). That meant coverage of any given magnitude
window was never exhaustive and never converged toward exhaustive --
each block covered a vanishing fraction of an ever-doubling window,
with no mechanism to track what had already been checked. It also let
range_count (and therefore most of a block's real difficulty) be
known several blocks in advance, since it only changed at fixed
https://github.com/Vic-Nas/hailstone/commit/f9877c73990a4d816b8edd1734bf28f3b92cc7a1Published at
2026-08-03 23:01:21 UTCEvent JSON
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