Related query was requested right here however the reply does not actually present a solution.
This reply says that the bottom doable worth for goal is “all zeros plus a one“. Pieter Wuille within the remark denied it and wrote that the goal may even be 0.
Nonetheless, can or not it’s 0 given the best way the goal is encoded in nBits? For the reason that smallest authorized worth for the decrease 24 bits is 0x008000 and if we take note of that the minimal exponent is just 3, it appear like the bottom doable worth for goal is 0x008000, that’s for nBits 0x03008000.
Due to this fact, what’s the lowest doable goal worth, ie for nBits?
