From d33e68d5e2a80aa48942bf05ab5807867bf91f1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SamarthPardhi <67687817+SamarthPardhi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 20:40:58 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Update mining.py

We do not need to convert those hashes in hex to integers, this will increase the hash rate significantly.
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 mining.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mining.py b/mining.py
index d93c632..644b6b8 100644
--- a/mining.py
+++ b/mining.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ def get_sha_256_hash(input_value):
 
 
 def block_hash_less_than_target(block_hash, given_target):
-    return int(block_hash, 16) < int(given_target, 16)
+    return '0x' + block_hash < given_target
 
 
 # Initial block data (the transactions' merkle tree root, timestamp, client version, hash of the previous block)