Why do they call it difficulty

[jongameson]

Like running a miner is hard 

[zubelutte]

Like running a miner is hard 

It is not, but difficulty means how difficult it is to mine Bitcoin now

[ajax3592]

Like running a miner is hard 

You have to run the same miner for longer durations of time when difficulty is high in order to mine that coin.
Obviously you have to wait wait and wait - lol its difficult!

[DeathAndTaxes]

If you were mining in 2009 and still mining today with the same hashing power the average time to solve a block has increased by a factor of almost one billion.  If that isn't "difficult" then I don't know what is.

BTW I perform all my hashes by hand so that is a lot of pencils and paper.

[deepceleron]

If you were mining in 2009 and still mining today with the same hashing power the average time to solve a block has increased by a factor of almost one billion.  If that isn't "difficult" then I don't know what is.

BTW I perform all my hashes by hand so that is a lot of pencils and paper.

Silly you, I wrote a program on my TI-84 calculator to help me with that. Sure, it takes a few days to make a Merkle tree, but it's better than the old days when we did it by hand.

Mining also has a target, and a probability, if you don't like the word difficulty, as in "the probability that a single block hash meets the current target is 1 in 3901396778050889728".

[sealberrder]

If you were mining in 2009 and still mining today with the same hashing power the average time to solve a block has increased by a factor of almost one billion.  If that isn't "difficult" then I don't know what is.

BTW I perform all my hashes by hand so that is a lot of pencils and paper.

Silly you, I wrote a program on my TI-84 calculator to help me with that. Sure, it takes a few days to make a Merkle tree, but it's better than the old days when we did it by hand.

Mining also has a target, and a probability, if you don't like the word difficulty, as in "the probability that a single block hash meets the current target is 1 in 3901396778050889728".

You are much more likely to win lottery then

Fortunatelly computers can solving millions of hashes at once

[nahtnam]

Because its how difficult it is to mine.

[buysellbitcoin]

If you were mining in 2009 and still mining today with the same hashing power the average time to solve a block has increased by a factor of almost one billion.  If that isn't "difficult" then I don't know what is.

BTW I perform all my hashes by hand so that is a lot of pencils and paper.

Rofl !!!
Are you sure your account is not hacked today mate

Regards

[PenAndPaper]

Becuase it's indicating how much harder is to mine an amount of bitcoins compared with a lower difficulty level.