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Title: Is BTC's bi-weekly difficulty change capped?
Post by: jorrit on August 27, 2017, 10:52:52 AM
BTC's difficulty is adjusted every two weeks so that a block can be solved in 10 minutes.  Is there a maximum change for a single 2 week period? The reason I ask is that after BCC I expected to see larger drop in difficulty to compensate for loss in hash rate.


Title: Re: Is BTC's bi-weekly difficulty change capped?
Post by: unamis76 on August 27, 2017, 11:55:11 AM
Difficulty is adjusted every 2016 blocks. There's no difficulty change "cap" as far as I'm aware.


Title: Re: Is BTC's bi-weekly difficulty change capped?
Post by: jorrit on August 27, 2017, 02:51:07 PM
Thanks for clearing that up!