li Mining difficulty adjusts automatically every #{coinConfig.difficultyAdjustmentBlockCount.toLocaleString()} blocks.
li The adjustment aims to maintain an average block-mining time of #{coinConfig.targetBlockTimeMinutes} minutes.
li A growth in the difficulty indicates that the average block-mining time during the previous adjustment epoch was less than #{coinConfig.targetBlockTimeMinutes} minutes (due to more miners joining the network and 'searching' / 'mining' for blocks).
li A drop in difficulty indicates miners have left the network so finding each block is adjusted to be 'easier' for the smaller number remaining.
li The difficulty 'value' is a multiple of the difficulty of finding the easiest block (Block #0) - e.g. blocks in BTC mainnet epoch 308 are over 16 trillion times harder to mine than those in epoch 0.
li A growth in the difficulty indicates that the average block-mining time during the previous adjustment epoch was less than #{coinConfig.targetBlockTimeMinutes} minutes (due to more miners joining the network and searching for blocks).
li A drop in difficulty indicates miners have left the network so finding each block is adjusted to be easier for the smaller number remaining.
li The numeric Difficulty is a multiple of the difficulty of finding the easiest block (Block #0) - e.g. blocks in BTC mainnet epoch 308 are over 16 trillion times harder to mine than those in epoch 0.
Dan Janosik
5 years ago