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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Difficulty! Do we really need it?
by
btchris
on 15/10/2014, 00:55:47 UTC
This is clear and thank you for clarifying! A bit shift modifies possibility by 50%.

Yes, but the hash target doesn't necessarily move from 135 bits to 136 bits, it moves from 135.1 to 135.4.

Just a question if you know for sure. When calculating the total difficulty of a chain we count the values of the actual hashes or the difficulty targets in the blocks?

The total difficulty of a chain (for the purposes of determining which chain is longest) is the sum of the difficulty targets, and has nothing to do with the "luck" of the miners / block hashes.