Quote from: dete on July 19, 2010, 05:19:36 PM

Regardless of how it's done though, we need to be wary of wild swings...

Indeed, this is also very important, especially to protect against DDoS attacks.
The current algorithm already tries to prevent this by not allowing a more than 4x factor adjustment every 2016 blocks.

I think we'd need a way to achieve the same end result when doing the continuous adjustments, but not a 4x factor for every block, obviously... it would need to prevent a 4x factor difficulty difference in the latest 2016 blocks compared to the calculated difficulty of the 2016 blocks before those.