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Bitcoin => Development & Technical Discussion => Topic started by: mustyoshi on April 02, 2014, 04:51:57 PM



Title: How would BTC mining be different if the dif retargetted every block?
Post by: mustyoshi on April 02, 2014, 04:51:57 PM
Would the profitability of it change?


Title: Re: How would BTC mining be different if the dif retargetted every block?
Post by: litecoin_messiah on April 02, 2014, 05:31:31 PM
Yes, There will also be many security issues relating to it.


Title: Re: How would BTC mining be different if the dif retargetted every block?
Post by: TierNolan on April 02, 2014, 08:14:38 PM
Would the profitability of it change?

It would depend on how much smoothing happened.

Some alt coins retarget every block, but use the last 100-200 blocks rather than just the last block.


Title: Re: How would BTC mining be different if the dif retargetted every block?
Post by: softron on April 03, 2014, 12:24:12 PM
Using everyblock would produce high diff flunctuations when big miners/pools go off/on that would not be good.