A measure of how hard it is to mine the next Bitcoin block. Bitcoin’s difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks (~2 weeks) to keep average block time at 10 minutes. As hash rate rises, difficulty rises; as hash rate falls (e.g., after a halving cuts miner economics), difficulty falls. Difficulty is one of the few honest, hard-to-fake signals of network commitment.
Difficulty
A measure of how hard it is to mine the next Bitcoin block. Bitcoin's difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks (~2 weeks) to keep average block time at 10 minutes. As hash rate rises, difficulty rises; as hash rate falls (e.g., after a halving cuts miner economics), difficulty falls. Difficulty is one of the few honest, hard-to-fake signals of network commitment.
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