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Title: what means nTargetTimespan or difficulty re-target?
Post by: supercanada1 on May 19, 2015, 03:27:59 AM
what means nTargetTimespan or difficulty re-target? any definition?


Title: Re: what means nTargetTimespan or difficulty re-target?
Post by: achow101_alt on May 20, 2015, 02:38:58 AM
The difficulty retarget is when the difficulty of the network is changed every 2016 blocks so that there is a 10 minute interval between each block. This retarget should occur roughly every 2 weeks, which is the timespan for the retarget.