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Re: mining on Bitcoin testnet
by
NeuroticFish
on 28/10/2022, 13:55:25 UTC
⭐ Merited by BlackHatCoiner (4)
Difficulty is about 67 million, as of block 2,378,483.

According to this post, the difficulty drops on testent to 1 from time to time, allowing even slower miners get lucky now and then.

You might be wondering how is this even possible. The answer is that the difficulty in testnet3 reverts to 1 after 20 minutes have passed with no one finding a block. A difficulty of 1 is so low that any CPU or GPU is capable of hitting a block. Note that this was the difficulty of Bitcoin in the beginning(2009). More details about this can be read here: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/18554/how-can-i-find-the-real-difficulty-on-testnet

If you read that topic you'll see it was tried successfully.