Extra Nonce and Time Stamp You’ll find in a block explorer that nonces generally only go up into the billions. For example, the nonce for block 841,948 was 1,614,498,317. Block 841,949 had a ...

Unfortunately for the search giant, a “nonce” is also British slang for “paedophile”. Google has since deleted the post after being alerted to its meaning, which many users did with GIFs ...

At some point, “nonce” became widely used in U.K. prisons as a label for sex offenders, particularly those convicted of crimes against children.