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Just take a random block for example, for block 506068, blockchain.info shows difficulty as 2,603,077,300,218.59, while blockcypher shows 392,962,374, do the explorers use a different way to calculate them, why are they different?
Why is explorers shows different difficulty values?
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Blockcypher is not showing difficulty but difficulty target. You can see blockchain.info also show this under 'bits'.
Read more: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty#What_is_the_formula_for_difficulty.3F
– Osias Jota – 2018-03-10T02:13:10.817Oops, sorry didn't notice that, thanks! – fluter – 2018-03-10T03:14:02.517