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«lets assume there is an input that leads sha-256 »

Your assumption is wrong. Theoretically, there might be no inputs that are solutions to the PoW. Of course in practice there are almost always a large number of solutions, but again the theoretical possibility of it is why it is correct to say the PoW is memoryless.

Even if theoretically there was always a solution, there is no way to iterate sequentially over all inputs because after iterating over 2^32 nonces, miners have to change the 256-bit merkel root, which is effectively random. This aspect alone makes mining memoryless.



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