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Really? I thought the difficulty took several days to adjust. Edit: The wiki says it takes 2160 blocks, about two weeks?
by MichaelGG 9y ago
Really? I thought the difficulty took several days to adjust. Edit: The wiki says it takes 2160 blocks, about two weeks?
- sanswork 9y agoIt does. If half the miners went offline right after an adjustment half as much bitcoin would be mined everyday and the next adjustment would be a month away instead of 2 weeks. The number of available transactions for the month would drop by half as well.