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Is there a good reason for the difficulty adjustment period being 2016 blocks? What would be the consequences of reducing this number?
by udfalkso 9y ago
Is there a good reason for the difficulty adjustment period being 2016 blocks? What would be the consequences of reducing this number?
- shawabawa3 9y agoI'm not sure what the reasoning is, but to be honest I don't think it's a good system. Block time averages have been about 9m30 since bitcoin's inception, so it's clearly not good enough to properly target 10min/block When bitcoin cash forked they changed the period to 144 blocks (along with some other changes i believe?), so they have a much smoother difficulty graph.