• culpritus [any]
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    3 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
      3 years ago

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

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