Bitcoin & Mining

Difficulty

Also: Mining Difficulty

A measure of how hard it is to find a valid block. Bitcoin adjusts it roughly every two weeks (2,016 blocks) so blocks keep arriving about every ten minutes regardless of how much hashrate joins or leaves.

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