• Rem [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    So blocks are just records of transactions between accounts? And instead of having a central server processing them, it's just a bunch of computers working in parallel. Why would the computers decide to make a block more difficult to process? Or is it just because the block contains more data?

    • culpritus [any]
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      4 years ago

      it's part of the code all the nodes are running, trying to get the block creation time to be ~10 minutes or so. since the 'power' of the network is variable with the number of nodes, the difficulty of creating a block is tuned based on how long it took to create the last one.

      • Rem [she/her]
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        edit-2
        4 years ago

        I understand all of these words individually :very-smart:

        Imma just not worry about it. Bitcoin bad, done, easy.