The next
difficulty adjustment on either chain is expected to be when bitcoin hits block 481,824, on August 24.
So, how would a miner prevent a downward
difficulty adjustment on bitcoin cash and trigger an exodus of mining power from bitcoin?
Not exact matches
The control of the
difficulty adjustment is extremely important because bigger miners could artificially warp and influence the mining
difficulty by switching their operations
on and off to get greater gains.
Difficulty adjustment and miner profitability all hinges
on which one the miners choose and if the miners switch to BCH for a decent period of time that could lead to issues for BTC as the algorithm corrects.
The bondage of nations to the global system through structural
adjustment was originally justified by their
difficulty in making payments
on their debts.
It quickly became apparent that while there were multiple issues going
on that I won't go into here except to say there were some technical
difficulties and an
adjustment period that needed to happen.
It's too distracting due to the
difficulty of use and the inability to make
adjustments based
on feel / touch.
However, long - term SWM player use of this server is not advisable due to repeated documented bugs, including documented instances of moderator - approved anti-SWM instakills, an unmoderated and easily exploited kick system, kernel instruction corruption, privilege escalation exploits, and most worrisome, statistics showing gaps in achievement between players
on different
difficulty settings in spite of
adjustments.
«The case for dynamic
difficulty adjustment in games,» in Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCHI International Conference
on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology — ACE»05 (New York, NY: ACM Press), 429 — 433.
The paper talks about how Dynamic
difficulty adjustment (DDA), mechanics in a game meant to make the game easier or harder based
on player performance, can be used to maximize player engagement throughout a game by reducing boredom or frustration.
In the past few years significant progress has been achieved, but
difficulties posed by the problem of flux
adjustment, while reduced, remain problematic and continued investigations are needed to reach the objective of avoiding dependence
on flux
adjustment.
The only
adjustments I allowed myself were to the
difficulty of the midterm, later homeworks, and final, based
on the overall quality of the class, which could vary substantially from year to year.
And even if some miners do mine
on the Bcash chain toward a
difficulty adjustment, it would just set the exact same dynamic in motion after a while.
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.
If, however, there were another 12 hours of no blocks
on the bitcoin cash chain, this would trigger another 6
difficulty adjustments downward.
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.
While that is of course true for any cryptocurrency, due to slow mining
difficulty adjustments, a potentially hostile environment, and the continued possibility for SegWit to activate
on the Legacy chain after all, it's probably more true for 148 BTC.
Block 479,808 (set for this weekend) will likely trigger a
difficulty adjustment downwards 50 %, and if the prices of bitcoin and bitcoin cash stay the same, this means miners will make almost double
on bitcoin cash what they would
on bitcoin.
Many BCH supporters believe the upgrade will be smooth and successful like the hard fork
on November 13 that changed the protocol
difficulty adjustment algorithm.
Family therapist Steve Williams counsels teens and children
on issues such as social skills training, anger management,
adjustment difficulties, self esteem, anxiety and depression,
adjustment to divorce and remarriage, trauma recovery, drug and alcohol abuse.
For the past 20 + years I have worked with children, adolescents, adults and families
on such issues as: depression or stress management, childrens behavioral / developmental concerns and related parental stress, adolescent self - esteem / insecurities or social
difficulties, eating disorders, substance use and general
adjustment to changes within families.
Children of depressed mothers also are more likely to have insecure attachment with their mothers, experience high social withdrawal, have poor communication and language skills, perform poorly
on cognitive tasks, and show more disruptive behaviors across developmental periods.2 Particularly among low - income families, financial
difficulties and related resource scarcity increase the detrimental impacts of maternal depression
on the children's
adjustment, the mother's health status, and the family's functioning as a whole.3
Tips for parents
on helping adolescents and college students cope in the aftermath of school shootings, tips for parents with adolescents preparing for college, and indicators of
difficulty with college
adjustment are all included in this comprehensive guide regarding the Virginia Tech shootings.
Earlier research has shown that children with hyperactivity and conduct
difficulties in particular, may find it difficult to adapt to the educational and social constraints of the classroom impacting
on their
adjustment, further behaviour and later attainment.
Children with hyperactivity and conduct
difficulties in particular, may find it difficult to adapt to the educational and social constraints of the classroom impacting
on their
adjustment, further behaviour and later attainment.
Next, we will capitalize
on the prospective, longitudinal design to examine (2) how the developmental timing of violence exposure may affect changes in offspring
adjustment across adolescence; (3) risk and protective factors (e.g., effortful control, parent monitoring) that may mediate associations between violence exposure in childhood and adolescence
adjustment; (4) intergenerational transmission of IPV (and parent aggression) and the circumstances whereby parents» developmental risk factors (e.g., exposure to IPV during childhood) increase the occurrence of IPV (and parent aggression) in adulthood and the risk of child
adjustment difficulties.
Such children are likely to be at higher risk of
adjustment difficulties in general and around their medical conditions specifically, and so research
on these families is needed.
Research
on psychosocial
adjustment of children with IBD suggests that they may be at risk for more
difficulty than healthy children, but average scores
on measures such as the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL; Achenbach, 1991) do not reach clinical significance.
The study explored the total, direct and indirect effects of emotion knowledge
on adjustment in preschoolers and examined whether emotion regulation mediated the relationships between emotion knowledge and
adjustment (social competence, and behavioral
difficulties, such as anxiety — withdrawal and anger — aggression).