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Re: hi pls help a noob
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odolvlobo
on 29/08/2014, 22:39:49 UTC
Also diff. rises each day

The difficulty rises every 10 to 14 days, not every day.

Can someone please explain me in simple terms, that in a distributed system like bitcoin network, how the need to increase difficulty is programmaticaly determined ?

The difficulty is recalculated every 2016 blocks based on the amount of time it took to produce the previous 2016 blocks, according to the timestamps.

Dnew = Dold x 14 days / actual time for the last 2016 blocks

Since the actual time for the last 2016 blocks is agreed on by everyone, everyone computes the same difficulty value.