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Title: Block Explorer show different difficulty in block details and getdifficulty Post by: happyuser on June 24, 2011, 04:15:04 PM Hello,
http://blockexplorer.com/q/getdifficulty returns 1379223.4296725 Block details (http://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000000092c421d9543e0a20f1027933cc3dbdca42f1483dcc0ad4c7cba) shows: Difficulty: 1379192.288228 ("Bits": 1a0c2a12) Why they are different and which one is correct? Title: Re: Block Explorer show different difficulty in block details and getdifficulty Post by: chungy on June 24, 2011, 04:18:11 PM The first link is the current difficulty on the network, the specific block details you linked was the difficulty when the block was generated.
For example, the genesis block (http://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f) shows a difficulty of 1 :) Title: Re: Block Explorer show different difficulty in block details and getdifficulty Post by: bansal on June 24, 2011, 04:37:38 PM The first link is the current difficulty on the network, the specific block details you linked was the difficulty when the block was generated. For example, the genesis block (http://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f) shows a difficulty of 1 :) Difficult of 1, if only I had known about bitcoin back then... :D Title: Re: Block Explorer show different difficulty in block details and getdifficulty Post by: happyuser on June 24, 2011, 05:22:37 PM Yes, but at the time I made the post this was the last block and the current difficulty. I think that they should match.
And the difference between them is just 31.1414445. |