PLOS ONE

PLOS ONE is a peer-reviewed open-access science journal; the archive cites its 2021 paper analyzing anomalous nonce patterns in early Bitcoin blocks.

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Event September 30, 2021 Added February 22, 2026 Updated September 19, 2026 Article

PLOS ONE peer-reviewed study confirms Patoshi mining anomalies in early Bitcoin

Maria Oskarsdottir ↔ Jacky Mallett, Satoshi Nakamoto, Sergio Demian Lerner

Reykjavik University researchers published the first peer-reviewed PLOS ONE study of the Patoshi pattern, identifying two nonce anomalies (P and Z) and finding the P anomaly in all 64 first blocks.