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Re: Feathercoin [FTC]
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californybit
on 11/08/2018, 09:02:44 UTC
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Hello. Why dies eHRC adds 2 extra historical block look ups, or block average times to Feahtercoin? Doesn’t it make mining more difficult?   
Such changes allow to calculate the new difficulty more accurately, this improves the quality of the mining itself considerably. In addition the introduction of eHRC included re-calculation of the difficulty, called Re-Target, after every block.
Why was it necessary to implement eHRC? As far as i know, not all the blockchains provide it.    
eHRC were designed was to help protect block chains against wild variations in the POW hash rate available. Even such major cryptocurrencies as bitcoin may suffer ‘cause of this.
Is “Kimoto Gravity well” or  eHRC used by Feathercoin more effective?
eHRC was specifically designed to be as effective as “Kimoto Gravity well” at compensating for variations on the proof of work (POW) hash rate but use the minimum of extra table look ups and calculations. This was important when block times had to work for transactions every minute, the change over to which was included in the same hard fork.
I can’t figure out why the number of so effective solutions used in FTC isn’t used for BTC mining. Can anyone explain me what the reason is?