> many people trip over the idea of one hash being "less" than another, and it's just easier to go with the "number of zeros" explanation rather than spend time

> many people trip over the idea of one hash being "less" than another, and it's just easier to go with the "number of zeros" explanation rather than spend time explaining how a hash just represents a bigass number. Aha! I knew there was a reason people prefer the leading zeros explanation. Thanks for pointing it out.