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Cash Mining Difficulty Drops Significantly — Speeding Up The Chain appeared first on Bitcoin News.
A lot has been said about the Bitcoin
Cash mining difficulty algorithm.
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Some chains, like Bitcoin
Cash for example, have variable
mining difficulties that change based on the amount of throughput transactions being processed on the chain.
Since there weren't very many Bitcoin
Cash miners on a network that did maintain Bitcoin's
mining difficulty requirements, this first BCH block did not come fast.
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At the beginning, it proved to be profitable to
mine on the Bitcoin
Cash blockchain, but once miners started to exploit it, sporadic block generation and adjustment
difficulties resulted in challenges for miners.
Another significant difference between the two currencies is that the level of
difficulty involved in
mining Bitcoin
Cash varies depending on how many miners are active on the network.
«Because the
difficulty adjusts only very slowly, bitcoin
cash becomes twice as profitable to
mine as bitcoin.
Bitcoin Unlimited chief scientist Peter Rizun highlighted another potential scenario:
Mining bitcoin
cash blocks could be more profitable to mine than bitcoin during short periods that have to do with its
difficulty algorithm, contingent on its price increasing.
So, how would a miner prevent a downward
difficulty adjustment on bitcoin
cash and trigger an exodus of
mining power from bitcoin?
There are already miners that seem to be ideologically driven to keep
mining on bitcoin
cash, but another miner may have wanted to make sure there were six blocks every 12 hours in order to prevent the triggering of the downward
difficulty adjustment.
The Bitcoin
Cash network recently had a successful hard fork which changed the protocol's
difficulty algorithm, and has kept
mining profitability more consistent ever since the implementation.
If six consecutive Bitcoin
Cash blocks take more than twelve hours to be
mined,
difficulty for the block after that is decreased by 20 percent.
The last Bitcoin
Cash network upgrade back in November of 2017 had zero complications, and the
Difficulty Algorithm Adjustment (DAA) consensus changes have kept the mining difficulty c
Difficulty Algorithm Adjustment (DAA) consensus changes have kept the
mining difficulty c
difficulty consistent.
This is partially a result of the volatile
mining difficulty for Bitcoin Cash when it first went live using the Emergency Difficulty Adjustment (EDA)
difficulty for Bitcoin
Cash when it first went live using the Emergency
Difficulty Adjustment (EDA)
Difficulty Adjustment (EDA) algorithm.
A few months later, in November 2017, Bitcoin
Cash began using a new
difficulty adjustment algorithm (DAA) to better manage the
mining difficulty and the volatile hashpower situation stabilized.
On Sunday, August 20, the Bitcoin
Cash (BCH) network dropped its
mining difficulty another notch down to 7 percent of BTC's
difficulty, on block 479808.
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Bitcoin does not have a mechanism for quick
mining difficulty adjustments, common today in most of Alts (and soon in
Cash).
In a few hours, Bitcoin
Cash's
mining difficulty will increase fourfold; To still be profitable to
mine,
Cash will need to be priced at a minimum of 40 % of Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin
Cash mining also proved to be unsuccessful: the network has a high level of
difficulty, and the miners refuse to deal with Bitcoin
Cash due to the low level of compensation they get.
After the activation of the hard fork, the
difficulty of the Bitcoin
Cash network declined by 2.5 times, and the profitability of
mining became approximately equal to that of the original bitcoin.
Within the last weekend, Bitcoin
Cash mining was four times more profitable than bitcoin's one, but in the evening on 12 November the
difficulty of the Bitcoin
Cash network was adjusted, and original bitcoin
mining became three times more profitable.
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News.Bitcoin.com On Sunday, August 20, the Bitcoin
Cash (BCH) network dropped its
mining difficulty another notch down to 7 percent of BTC's
difficulty, on -LSB-...]