This includes a new difficulty re-adjustment algorithm named «DigiShield» that
adjusts the mining difficulty each time a block is found — instead of once every two weeks.
Not exact matches
The Bitcoin
mining difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks or roughly 14 days.
BGold on the other hand, wants to
adjust its
difficulty every single block to make sure that blocks are
mined every ten minutes.
As explained in the marble example, the
difficulty of
mining is constantly
adjusting.
I think you mistake the historical trend of adjustments to the bitcoin
difficulty generally being upward, with the actual mechanism where the
difficulty is
adjusted to keep the global mean - time - to - valid - block constant, because of the other historical trend of
mining power going up.
The software will
adjust the
difficulty such that a constant rate of
mined blocks will be maintaned.
To avoid this from happening, the
difficulty level of cryptocurrency
mining is
adjusted.
If in a space of at least twelve hours, fewer than six blocks are
mined, the
difficulty adjusts downwards by 20 percent for the next block.
The opposite happens when the
mining power drops;
mining difficulty is
adjusted downwards to make
mining easier.
«Because the
difficulty adjusts only very slowly, bitcoin cash becomes twice as profitable to
mine as bitcoin.
Finally, the
mining difficulty will be
adjusted every 2 weeks.
As such, the idea behind EDA was that
mining difficulty could be dynamically
adjusted down as necessary to attract miners with profits.
Some believe that Bitcash's bigger blocks and new «
difficulty adjusting mining formula» make it an excellent alternative to Bitcoin.
Remember, Bitcoin's
mining difficulty (which 148BTC would inherit) is
adjusted every 2,016 blocks to regulate the rate of block creation to one block approximately every ten minutes.
This means that the
mining difficulty will be
adjusted in a similar way to that of Bitcoin such that no more than 21 million coins can ever be
mined.
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.