With this exponential growth in difficulty lately I was wondering: Because the difficulty is adjusted each 2016 blocks and not some other measure of time, if there were a substantial decrease in network capacity wouldn't the blockchain get "stuck"? For example, say things keeps growing nicely and then the next reward split rolls around and half the miners decide to shut down their operations overnight because it's not profitable. It might go from 10 minutes to find a new block to 2 hours or more. Then it could take 168 days to reach 2016 blocks and have the difficulty readjust.
Is this a real danger, or an I missing something in the specification?
Thanks,
-Jay
yes, if a corporate is capable of pushing up the difficulty to 10x it is, then he off his machine just to save electricity, and mine again once the difficulty is reduced. This way he kill all the bitcoin farming
