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Hmm. I thought I remembered reading something about two weeks, but that's the time period required without enough blocks to make difficulty fall.
by ThrustVectoring 9y ago
Hmm. I thought I remembered reading something about two weeks, but that's the time period required without enough blocks to make difficulty fall.
- ikeboy 9y agoIt adjusts every 2016 blocks, but if new miners come online that could in theory be mined in a day instead of two weeks. I haven't looked too closely at how difficulty adjusted after previous order of magnitude efficiency gains, but the risk is certainly there.