Why does cgminer update "nonce2" and "ntime" every 5 seconds?

defi23 · 2018-09-09T14:53:00.000Z

Hey everyone, I’m curious about how cgminer works. I’ve read some stuff but still confused. Here’s the scenario I’m looking at: using a GekkoScience Compac F USB miner on mainnet with an average hashrate of 387 GH/s. The nonce range is from 0 to 4.3 billion,

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#21Sep 15, 2018, 12:54 AM

If cgminer has no role in the nonce, then who does? Does the hardware miner automatically cycle through the nonce range? How does that trigger work? This is weird.

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Why does cgminer update "nonce2" and "ntime" every 5 seconds?

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