Gameparadise007,


     That’s a question I can’t answeanswer with a definitive number, it depends solely on how much hashrate shows up, and when it shows up.

BitcoinII uses the exact same difficulty adjustment algorithm that Bitcoin does, so every 2016 blocks the timestamps of the previous 2016 blocks are evaluated, and the Target Difficulty is adjusted automatically.

If someone shows up with some serious hash power and spikes difficulty in the span of 2 retarget invervals, CPU mining could be a foregone conclusion in as little as 4,032 blocks.

But I can tell you this: Hash rate isn’t everything. Slower machines can and do find blocks in high target difficulty networks, that’s just how the hashing math works out sometimes.

And you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Gameparadise007,


     That’s a question I can’t answe with a definitive number, it depends solely on how much hashrate shows up, and when it shows up.

BitcoinII uses the exact same difficulty adjustment algorithm that Bitcoin does, so every 2016 blocks the timestamps of the previous 2016 blocks are evaluated, and the Target Difficulty is adjusted automatically.

If someone shows up with some serious hash power and spikes difficulty in the span of 2 retarget invervals, CPU mining could be a foregone conclusion in as little as 4,032 blocks.

But I can tell you this: Hash rate isn’t everything. Slower machines can and do find blocks in high target difficulty networks, that’s just how the hashing math works out sometimes.

And you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.