2 How many confirmations is enough if block creation rate is volatile? 2013-03-26T22:20:06.860

2 Why must generated coins mature 120 blocks before they can be spent? 2013-05-12T10:33:32.107

2 When a difficulty change reaches the upper or lower bound (4x current), what is the implied impact on time per block? 2013-05-22T18:45:54.843

2 How does the block discovery rate of a mining rig relate to the overall computing power of the network? 2013-07-02T17:51:37.590

2 How much will difficulty increase when ASIC miners become generally availible in the coming months? 2013-07-08T06:08:10.027

2 How do nodes come to a consensus on difficulty? 2013-09-10T10:58:32.800

2 What does "H-not-zero" and "Share is above target" mean? 2013-09-14T23:04:53.353

2 Does an increase in hash/s decrease the time it takes to obtain a block or does it increase the possibilities of solving one? 2013-10-10T08:04:47.770

2 Why was the time between these two blocks not approximately 10 minutes? 2013-11-12T20:23:10.503

2 Cheating ASICs and Mining Software 2013-11-29T05:06:43.850

2 Anyone successfully mining bitcoins in Testnet3? 2013-12-05T18:52:15.887

2 "Instantaneous" transaction verification? 2013-12-13T20:48:36.877

2 Where to get difficulty data for all crypto coins? 2014-01-07T03:44:51.523

2 How does the network adjust the rate at which the coins are created? 2014-01-20T04:10:47.990

2 What would happen if 90% of the Bitcoin miners suddenly stopped mining? 2014-02-17T17:00:29.990

2 Is there an up-to-date professional analysis of different "mining shield" technologies? 2014-03-22T07:02:50.810

2 What is the average number of hashes it takes to mine bitcoins? 2014-04-16T20:39:56.797

2 How does a proof of work limit of `~uint256(0) >> 20` translate into a difficulty of `1 / 2^12`? 2014-05-05T17:48:52.387

2 When ASICs generate a share, is it always at difficulty 1? 2014-12-15T21:23:03.907

2 Why is the target stored in compact form in the block header? 2015-04-03T10:17:05.127

2 Can a smart mind explain block difficulty calculation in lay terms? 2015-09-05T16:50:50.670

2 BitCoin Price Index -Studies on Relation to Network Hashrate and Block Difficulty? 2015-12-15T10:17:36.897

2 What will happen to Bitcoin when it takes years to complete a calculation? 2015-12-18T01:00:25.677

2 Where, or how, can I get a complete history of difficulty? 2016-01-07T10:53:31.477

2 Do the leading zeros in the desired hash pattern for mining change? 2016-02-01T12:54:38.463

2 How do I find a pubkey and the nbits value to generate a genesis block? 2016-05-11T17:56:10.393

2 Why not multiply "six confirmations" and divide Time-Between-Blocks and Reward by the same factor? 2017-01-10T04:25:58.770

2 Is the difficulty target always truncated for practical purposes? 2017-01-18T13:10:01.817

2 Why not decrease the difficulty to increase capacity? 2017-05-19T23:31:47.743

2 How is time measured in the context of updates to mining difficulty? 2017-05-25T20:43:04.493

2 Why wouldn't miners change the protocol? (e.g. change difficulty) 2017-06-18T21:49:13.210

2 Bitcoin Cash difficulty before first hard fork: Emergency Difficulty Adjustment (EDA) 2017-08-02T14:13:28.510

2 Can a two-block-sized chain override the main chain? 2017-12-22T10:27:25.147

2 Why can't a Bitcoin fork take over? 2018-01-25T06:59:53.050

2 Share difficulty and hashrate 2018-02-09T15:54:26.233

2 How do nonce and difficulty relate? 2018-02-16T10:23:12.907

2 understanding bits and difficulty in a block header 2018-02-28T20:58:36.520

2 Is there a limit to how many blocks can be rolled back from a 51% attack? 2018-07-29T22:52:52.573

2 How does difficulty impact profitability? what is the formula? 2018-10-19T16:57:12.913

2 where is the adjustment calculation for the target value in the source code? 2018-12-13T08:01:08.530

2 Why can't miners meet the difficulty by picking a low number for the block hash? 2019-08-29T16:58:04.127

1 Feasibility of a "High horsepower" attack (based on difficulty -4x adjustments) 2013-03-26T20:36:28.307

1 What does nonce mean? 2013-05-09T00:15:15.057

1 Litecoin - how to calculate the difficulty from 2^-N 2013-05-10T20:58:09.740

1 How to calculate litecoin pool difficulty from cgminer diff value? 2013-05-11T21:33:02.773

1 How do you determine which position a block is in the blockchain? 2013-09-10T16:28:08.810

1 What are the factors affecting expected difficulty and what is the maximum value it can take over the period of 30 days? 2013-10-13T03:07:36.230

1 Why do we need a mining speed above 4.3Ghash/s? 2013-10-21T21:07:24.260

1 Is it correct to assume that the price of cloud GH/S will vary proportionally with the difficulty change? 2013-11-16T09:46:25.807

1 Is a low difficulty insecure? 2013-12-16T22:10:30.463

1 Why are blocks hashed? 2013-12-18T17:50:31.627

1 CGMiner, share sizes, what does a shares size with a G appended mean, how much larger than a M (million) share is it? 2013-12-27T14:04:16.347

1 Are transactions still tamper-proof if blocks are hashed without nonces? 2013-12-30T04:11:44.887

1 How can one estimate the difficulty change? 2014-01-20T01:31:51.613

1 Solving a block and share relationship [pool mining] 2014-02-25T20:44:10.663

1 How is the difficulty of bitcoin mining propagated? 2014-03-12T10:03:58.027

1 Difficulty Trends 2014-04-02T17:10:47.370

1 Peercoin: What is the difference and similarity between the PoW difficulty and PoS difficulty? 2014-08-17T04:00:29.270

1 Laymans guess to determine how many hashes must be computed to you find a specific value 2014-09-25T01:06:13.537

1 Bitcoin GetBlockWork() function 2014-12-18T23:24:40.377

1 Difficulty for hash (reversed function of "does hash met difficulty/target") 2015-03-13T13:27:22.343

1 Are there multiple representations of the same target value? Are they interchangable? 2015-04-10T19:43:36.993

1 Generating blocks in regtest: "hash doesn't match nBits" 2015-05-01T16:31:49.140

1 Rise difficulty in code, still no changes after rebuild 2015-05-27T15:39:00.363

1 Abrupt increase in difficulty of proof-of-work 2015-11-02T11:05:20.907

1 Why pose limit on update ratio of network difficulty 2015-11-23T09:33:14.740

1 How was 59 days determined with 1 TH/sec from "Mastering Bitcoin" 2016-02-29T08:09:14.507

1 Difficulty set by pools 2016-03-14T14:25:12.393

1 Do Miners have to get below the Target or the Bits value? 2016-04-14T11:16:41.197

1 Who decides that the new block is ready to hash? 2016-04-28T00:02:34.433

1 How do I calculate expected earnings when mining a cryptocurrency? 2016-06-11T14:48:45.340

1 Can difficulty target by exploited by miner with proprietary computer? 2016-09-03T03:42:22.897

1 The probability that the entire network generates at least two blocks within 10 minutes? 2016-09-18T18:32:42.120

1 Difficulty target representation in bitcoin wiki 2016-09-21T23:51:43.147

1 How harder is it on average to find a block with one more zero in its hash? 2016-10-18T18:38:12.753

1 Friend sent me Bitcoin using Quickbt and it never ended up in my wallet 2016-10-20T16:46:42.787

1 Hypothetical Scenario - How long does a network correction take? 2016-12-13T13:11:56.717

1 What would happen if one person mined all unmined bitcoins? 2017-03-06T19:56:27.070

1 A problem on difficulty equation 2017-06-06T03:24:54.037

1 Bitcoin difficulty re targeting in case of catastrophic hashrate drop? 2017-08-22T17:07:25.903

1 Is Bitcoin's mining difficulty adjusted if it fails to solve a block 2017-09-20T23:05:58.760

1 difficulty value vs. computational power 2017-10-04T17:07:14.560

1 How is the "N" in PPLNS chosen? 2xDiff appears to make no sense - OR - Why are Scrypt share difficulties off by a factor of 65536? 2017-10-21T11:41:01.547

1 How much Bitcoin did I mine in December 2013? 2017-10-21T14:00:32.300

1 Is there a chart available for the historical relationship between Bitcoin price vs difficulty? 2017-10-25T17:04:07.343

1 What is the "certain criteria" to be a valid Bitcoin block? 2017-10-31T07:22:20.057

1 What prevents a node from sending a different version of the blockchain? 2017-11-04T07:46:50.163

1 nBit to leading zeros in Block Hash 2017-11-04T12:44:51.193

1 What is the strategy mining pool servers use (regarding difficulty)? 2017-11-10T12:27:45.387

1 How often is a block mined on the bitcoin testnet? 2017-11-11T23:13:51.430

1 How to calculate DGB-Groestl difficulties? 2017-11-13T06:07:06.380

1 What are the implications of a huge amount of unused hash power? 2017-12-05T08:52:51.973

1 General Bitcoin questions 2017-12-13T08:45:37.890

1 Why does Bitcoin adjust the difficulty every 2016 instead of 2048 blocks? 2018-01-04T08:36:02.040

1 How to lower difficulty on blockchain? 2018-01-07T15:39:19.590

1 Will there be a problem if bdiff and pdiff are slightly different? 2018-01-08T22:04:47.830

1 Is the difficulty in mining a function of how much total mining power there are in the ecosystem? 2018-01-16T20:38:49.860

1 Why mining pool has different connections ports for different difficulty 2018-03-07T05:33:22.350

1 Why is explorers shows different difficulty values? 2018-03-10T01:14:22.043