To be specific, the change will try to reverse a piece of code known
as Emergency difficulty adjustment (EDA) rule which was set up to aid Bitcoin cash in luring in miners who are willing to secure its blockchain.
It would be a bad time to own a lot of crypto that does not have
an emergency difficulty adjustment built in.
Then, last weekend, the Bcash mining saga further developed, as some miners periodically triggered
an emergency difficulty adjustment, leading to extreme swings in hash power, unreliable block times and increased inflation.
To mitigate this problem, Bcash implemented a feature called the «
emergency difficulty adjustment» (EDA).
As a result,
emergency difficulty adjustments (a technical mechanism unique to bitcoin cash) were triggered, causing the difficulty to drop enough for miners to begin switching back.
In particular, the change will attempt to reverse a piece of code, called
the emergency difficulty adjustment (EDA) rule, meant to help bitcoin cash better attract miners willing to secure its blockchain.
To make matters worse for Bitcoin Cash, they implemented an «
emergency difficulty adjustment» which has caused wildly oscillating hashrate, unpredictable block confirmation times with up to twelve hours between blocks, and increased the rate of inflation so much that the BCC block reward halving may occur in 2018 instead of 2020.
Before the hard fork, Bitcoin Cash utilized
the emergency difficulty adjustment algorithm (EDA).