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Board Mining speculation
Re: Next difficulty increase?
by
drrussellshane
on 08/10/2014, 14:17:04 UTC

Nope. That's not how it works.

Now I am not quite understanding what you mean by that's not how it works?  

I asked:  Is it becoming to difficult to get that amount of blocks in that amount of time?

I am under the impression that the difficulty makes it harder to find a block, which would increase the time that it takes to discover 1 block, or say, 2016 blocks, are you telling me that is not how it works?

It is set up such that a block will be found approximately every ten minutes.

If there were only two miners with equal capability, they would each find a block about every twenty minutes.

The higher the difficulty level, the harder it is for any one miner to find a block.

The difficulty level is calculated by taking into account the entire network hashpower, such that the entire network will find a block about every ten minutes.


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I am under the impression that the difficulty makes it harder to find a block, which would increase the time that it takes to discover 1 block, or say, 2016 blocks, are you telling me that is not how it works?

It does make it harder for a miner to find a block, but the whole network finds a block about every ten minutes.... that's the "constant".