It does raise a point though. What is the use of all these difficulty rises. Is it somehow helping security by open competition it constantly raises the bar beyond the reach of hackers or nefarious parties like NSA, etc
How do you have hundreds of posts and not understand the purpose of difficulty retargets? Let me ask you, then: What do you suppose would happen with fixed difficulty? Or a max difficulty in reasonable space, like, now or before now, so it could only adjust down from here?