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January 31, 2015, 06:37:31 PM
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A thought,

If everyone agreed, or most agreed, in the mining world to switch off their machines on a difficulty change period it should set to zero, then restart all the mining operations and everyone could have a bumper 2 weeks Cheesy Cheesy

All in favour say "aye" Cheesy





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January 31, 2015, 06:42:34 PM
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A thought,

If everyone agreed, or most agreed, in the mining world to switch off their machines on a difficulty change period it should set to zero, then restart all the mining operations and everyone could have a bumper 2 weeks Cheesy Cheesy

All in favour say "aye" Cheesy






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January 31, 2015, 07:49:32 PM
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then straight back up again after Grin
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January 31, 2015, 08:10:02 PM
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It would be great to get difficulty to zero, but it will be notime until all diff goes back.

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January 31, 2015, 08:14:37 PM
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If everyone agreed, or most agreed, in the mining world to switch off their machines on a difficulty change period it should set to zero, then restart all the mining operations and everyone could have a bumper 2 weeks Cheesy Cheesy

Yeaahh, that's not how mining works...though it's a fun thought experiment.

Problem #1) Who would mine the last block (#2016) to initiate the difficulty change? Even if "most agreed", the remaining miners (assuming there were very few of them) would take ages to solve the last block. No transactions would be processed on the Bitcoin network and the whole thing collapses.

Problem #2) As far as I've understood it, a change in difficulty doesn't happen based on what's happening on the last block, but rather the culmination of all 2016 blocks after the last change. To cause a drop in the difficulty, the average timestamps on the blocks would need to be greater than 10 minutes apart. Stopping at the last block wouldn't do anything to change the average of the previous 2015.

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January 31, 2015, 08:25:04 PM
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Nice input
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February 01, 2015, 12:13:41 AM
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Yes, its based on the collective time of the past 2016 blocks.

So if we all turned off (except 1 miner, because we need to get through those 2016 blocks), it would take....

Well, we need come values here.  Say the last miner was 1 Terahash.  The total network right now is ~300 Peta, so 300 000 tera, so we would be 300 000 times slower.

Instead of taking 14 days to find that 2016th block, it would be 4.2 million days, or 11.5 thousand years.

Then the difficulty would drop to ~137 000, and we could turn all our machines back on.  Once we turned back on that 300 Peta, it would take the reverse!  300 000 times faster to get through those 2016 blocks, 4.667*10^-5 days, or about 4 seconds.  So... whoever turns on "first" will just get every single block, or about 50 000 BTC.
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February 01, 2015, 05:29:12 AM
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A thought,

If everyone agreed, or most agreed, in the mining world to switch off their machines on a difficulty change period it should set to zero, then restart all the mining operations and everyone could have a bumper 2 weeks Cheesy Cheesy

All in favour say "aye" Cheesy








FYI, your method would not make the difficulty zero. Please read more and you will find out that it is impossible to make it zero.

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February 01, 2015, 07:50:34 AM
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Yes, its based on the collective time of the past 2016 blocks.

So if we all turned off (except 1 miner, because we need to get through those 2016 blocks), it would take....

Well, we need come values here.  Say the last miner was 1 Terahash.  The total network right now is ~300 Peta, so 300 000 tera, so we would be 300 000 times slower.

Instead of taking 14 days to find that 2016th block, it would be 4.2 million days, or 11.5 thousand years.

Then the difficulty would drop to ~137 000, and we could turn all our machines back on.  Once we turned back on that 300 Peta, it would take the reverse!  300 000 times faster to get through those 2016 blocks, 4.667*10^-5 days, or about 4 seconds.  So... whoever turns on "first" will just get every single block, or about 50 000 BTC.

fantastic explanation! Brilliant.

So ideally getting a quarter of the mining power off would be more reasonable and profitable.
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February 01, 2015, 07:55:46 AM
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February 01, 2015, 08:05:37 PM
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Just to be even more pedantic, I think there are some limits on how big a change there can be in the difficulty for any single change. I may be wrong on the specific of those limits, but it's already clear that it would take a very long time for it to happen. Also, aren't the confirmations of Bitcoin transactions wrapped up in the "mining process". So much for the vaunted "speed of Bitcoin" of you stop things for a few days.
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February 01, 2015, 10:25:43 PM
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Unless BTC value drops to $0 this will never happen.  You will never reach miner consensus to shut them all down.

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February 02, 2015, 12:18:05 AM
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The difficulty never changes by more than a factor of 4 (except for in a special case that only applies on testnet).

The code that enforces this is

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/d62a1947be5350ed60066ccacc7aba43bbdf48fb/src/main.cpp#L875.
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February 02, 2015, 02:44:50 AM
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^^^ what he said.

and NAY
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February 02, 2015, 05:52:38 AM
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It would never happen.  But we can always dreams  Grin
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February 02, 2015, 12:04:53 PM
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A thought,

If everyone agreed, or most agreed, in the mining world to switch off their machines on a difficulty change period it should set to zero, then restart all the mining operations and everyone could have a bumper 2 weeks Cheesy Cheesy

All in favour say "aye" Cheesy






Wouldn't the difficulty jump back to where it was suddenly? :/
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February 02, 2015, 07:25:34 PM
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Yes we can dream.
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February 02, 2015, 07:27:15 PM
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A thought,

If everyone agreed, or most agreed, in the mining world to switch off their machines on a difficulty change period it should set to zero, then restart all the mining operations and everyone could have a bumper 2 weeks Cheesy Cheesy

All in favour say "aye" Cheesy

If all the miners switch off their machines the bitcoin network will die (or better stop) so no one can "dump" any bitcoin  Cheesy or buy it.
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February 05, 2015, 06:43:28 PM
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Seems to me that bitcoin price would have to hit 0 before difficulty ever will.  With about a 10 to 30 day delay.
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