If you’ve ever come across the word “nonce,” you might not think much of it. In some contexts, it’s completely harmless. In old literature, it simply means “for the time being.” In tech, it refers to ...

A nonce, short for “number used once,” is a special number that is assigned to a block in a blockchain during the mining process. It is an essential part of the proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism ...

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You’d rather own a wug than a slithy tove—trust us. All this to say that the finer criteria for nonce words are debatable, and you could probably make an argument against the nonce-ness of any term in ...