Do bitcoin miners calculate the hash value of current block or next block?

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I'm new in bitcoin and my question seems be stupid. I appreciate your help.
Miners calculates blockhash as picking a proper nonce.
And he is awarded.
To calculate block hash, he will need 6 values. 2 of them are merklehash and nonce.
I'm gonna say about merklehash and blockhash. Suppose that miner A is trying to calculate.
To calculate blockhash, merklehash is needed. But merklehash is a hash of all transactions of the block. The first transaction data is that a miner is awarded(?). That means merklehash is calculated after awarded miner is determined. What's the difference between awarded miner of this block transactions and A? I really don't understand.

David Schwartz · Answer

If I'm a miner, I only want to mine a block that awards me. So I'll create a block that awards me the reward and see if I can find a nonce that makes the block valid. If so, then I am successful.

Hamita · Answer

After reading your question, you are a little confused, so i will try to explain:
Miners do double round of SHA256
What they hash?
They hash the blockheader...
What's the blockheader?
The blockheader is build from data
What data?
It's Build from:
Version: The version of the block.
Previous block hash: The Block Hash of the block that this block is being built on top of. This is what “chains” the blocks together.
Merkle root: All of the transactions in this block, hashed together. Basically provides a single-line summary of all the transactions in this block.
Time: When a miner is trying to mine this block, the Unix time at which this block header is being hashed is noted within the block header itself.
Bits: A shortened version of the Target.
Nonce: The field that miners change in order to try and get a hash of the block header (a Block Hash) that is below the Target.
All this is in little endian

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