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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Difficulty estimation website up for all forks.
by
Sp0tter
on 13/06/2013, 12:15:48 UTC
I noticed that the LTC difficulty estimate is jumping around.  Are you by chance only basing it on the time for the last block rather than a rolling average?

This one shows -19.35%.  A few minutes earlier it was +38%...

btc  239719  8.71G  2016  239904  185  90.82%  12153412.00  15428597.34  26.95%  1d 0hr 17m 16s  
nmc  114171  1.13G  2016  114912  741  63.24%  2932635.36  2994885.92  2.12%  5d 0hr 55m 58s  
ltc  364901  1.69G  2016  366912  2011  0.25%  604.60  487.58  -19.35%  4d 7hr 54m 6s  

I do not use last block or a rolling average.  I use the exact calcluation since last diff change.  So if you notice that 0.25% in your LTC row that is saying that the measurement at that moment is only based off 0.25 * 2016 blocks.  The estimate gets more accurate as more blocks are found.  The result is that toward the end it should be more accurate than someone using a rolling block window,

Thanks for the feedback.